RE: [Harp-L] Astatic 200s microphone REVIEW

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By the way, this is a review

Joe Pinto
Little Joe & the Werewolves
 
200s microphone
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> Just got my ASTATIC 200s microphone from David Wren of www.harpmicshop.com
> Here's my review. I was blown away when I opened the box. The harp
> looked good on internet photos but the real thing looked so much better. 
> Usually its the other way around, advertisers make anything from models to
> harmburgers look amazing but when you see the product up close it's
> often scary. This harp mic has a strong shure cm element and theres no doubt
> looking at it inside and out that a professional did the work that has done
> a truck load of these before. 
> I was an ASTATIC 200s virgin before this having played only shure bullets 
> and mostly 545 pistol and straight mics for the 38 years I've been doing this.
> There's a lot of things I love about the Astatic 200s. The grille is one of the coolest looking
> microphone grills in history. It screams the 1940s look. 
> It's a perfect sized bullet for people like me that don't have basketball players hands 
> and the place where David put the volume control is where the stand was chopped. 
> Perfect aestetically and the control is out of the way so you won't accidently alter the volume.
> This mic has a great percussive honk through my modified bassman ri with plenty
> of volume before feedback. It breaks up nice even at fairly low levels but its that full mississippi saxophone tone
> not the mosquito buzzing around the room crap sound you get from a bad element or
> some of those new repro mics you get from commerical stores. *never bought one but
> I've tried them all. For about $50 more than a store bought piece of junk you can have the real thing.
> Lastly and also very important, the mic price. For $150. including the shipping to Canada this mic is a great value. 
> Even the shipping was faster than I expected.
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> Anyway, I'm not affiliated with David Wren. I met him online after I learned that Tom Ellis (mic builder for Kim Wilson
> and Charlie Musslewhite) who did some work for me before, had retired from mic building. 
> I took a chance on David Wren and I just want to say that everything about this man from answering
> all my questions, craftsmansip, shipping, etc was perfect. He's building classy mics at honest prices and it
> would be cool for you to go to his site and support this dude. 
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> Joe Pinto
> Little Joe & the Werewolves
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