Tube SDC Audio Samples
This page contains audio samples for the Acoustic Guitar, Drum Overhead, Sax, Brass, and Viola sessions from Adam Sullivan’s Tube SDC Shootout.
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If you somehow landed here directly, you’ll want to read the “Massive Tube SDC Review” article to understand what this is about.
Index
Acoustic Guitar
Drum Overheads
Viola
Sax
Brass
Acoustic Guitar
[This set of samples includes 5 stereo pairs of tube mics, 1 mono tube mic, and 1 stereo pair of FET mics for contrast.]
Drum Overheads
[This set of samples includes 5 stereo pairs of tube mics, 1 mono tube mic, and 1 stereo pair of FET mics for contrast. You can also download an archive of MP3s of a full drum-kit mix, with kick and snare mics, here.]
Viola
[This set of samples includes 5 stereo pairs of tube mics, 1 mono tube mic, and 2 stereo pairs of FET mics for contrast.]
Sax
[This set of samples includes 6 mono tube mics on Tenor Sax, as gain-matched MP3s. Find the Alto and Baritone Sax samples (as gain-matched 320 Kbps mono MP3s) here.]
Brass
[Find the trumpet and trombone samples (as gain-matched 320 Kbps mono MP3s) here. ]
Big Dave
September 22nd, 2012 at 5:27 am
That is a lot of information. the only place I thought that any of the mics stood out is on the acoustic guitars. All of the other tests it just seemed like you could pick the one that provided the texture you needed.thanks for providing the demos. I really appreciate that.
Simon
March 7th, 2016 at 2:25 pm
For me the Avantone Pro CV-28 really stood out! Picked it blind on multiple instruments. Guess I’ll have to try it soon myself.
Michael
July 27th, 2022 at 2:49 pm
Thanks for doing this.
The Oktava and the Avantone shone through on most of these – especially on acoustics + drum overheads.
Only one where the Telefunken was in my top 3 was the tenor sax, which I mic up maybe once every two years.