Recording Magazine looks at the Reissue Neumann U67 Tube Microphone
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Recording's Editor Paul Vnuk compares the reissue Neumann U67 to a pair of vintage specimens from the mic locker of Chicago's Electrical Audio. You can read the full review in the May 2019 issue of RECORDING Magazine.
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this 1967 is soo sweet...my favourite
I tried to hate this....I really did. It just brought soo much joy to my heart.
in the big picture the differences were small and I agree with a comment below, that you could use any of them interchangeably, but the 64 and 67 likely had the Telefunken tubes that came with them whereas the reissue has the new stock Russian tube. Tubes matter much in this design. Put a NOS Telefunken EF86/806S tube in the reissue and any differences will likely be even smaller. The Reissue is a winner!
Telefunken? Amperex and mullard lamps sound more interesting
67 has extra magic
What a mic, so nice!
Old U 67 sounds fuller. U67 reissue sounds a little crispy.
Fantastique. J'ai aimé 64. Vraiment un son d'époque.
énorme j'adore aussi si je pouvais le trouver et me le prendre...
Should've picked another guy to demo the mic.
I prefer the vintage ones, I think the new ones would sound better with a vintage tube in it like NOS telefunken, if you're gonna spend thousands on a mic of this calibre may as well get that and also an official neumann shockmount and pop filter, or rycote equivalent, otherwise very impressed with the sound of the re-issue, it's at least 95% of the sound.
I suspect the difference is mainly the capsule. You can hear the same types of differences between vintage U87s and the U87ai. Im not just talking about the slightly higher frequency peak of the U87ai. But yeah a vintage EF86s would improve the sound
To my ears, the 1964 is the brightest. The 1967 feels the darkest, and the reissue sits perfectly between them. It is similar to my findings at my studio, where I was able to test mine against vintage ones. One could use any of them interchangeably.
I tend to agree on the 1964 U67. To me it's much more wide and natural sounding. But, everyone will have there own ears and opinions :)
The one that I liked the most is the 1967.
Yo the 1964 had this dark warmth to it the 67 was more bright heard more volume comin out of the 1967 the reissue has this weird balance between the 2 idk how the reissue pulled that off beatiful mics dam iwsh I had 7j to drop on a mic wow nice
Wow, he sounds great!
Wow you really put it through it’s paces 🙄
The problem with this is that you did not state if any mic had/has tube changes
The vintage Neumanns always sound better and more 3D, as if the source is deeper in the sound stage. Put differently, the current production Neumann and clones sound one dimension compared to the vintage. That seems counter intuitive as I’d expect the capsule in the older units to be more rigid and worse at transients. The new U67 still sounds wonderful
The bass, lower mid response is also different and preferable on the vintage 67 which also happens with all the reissues and clones of Neumann
The new Reissue... They've made it to sound modern in my opinion... Which I don't like...
I like the old ones. They distort in a way that the new ones can't.
Sonni office Try one in your space with an original, and you’ll realize that your statement is false.
The reissue seems broken!!! The upper mids sound distorted. Compliments to Neumann.... :-) Vintage One is amazing even is old, used, or serviced.
Not great material to do a shootout. Guitar floppy and same notes as voice, drowns out nuances in mic differences. Any chance just do hear solo’d voice?
That room looks suspect..
For me the newest U67 rules. Maybe it's time we stop calling it the reissue?
1964 sounds best.
Why not get a real singer?