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I've been working exclusively live for years now, and my mic collection is geared very much in that direction. Getting involved in a new studio space and will be looking for something decent for vocal tracking on a modest budget, this is definitely on the list.
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It got a bit of hate on some audio forums as Neumann’s marketing team had touted it as the new U87, when in reality it’s its own thing. The U87 may be three times the price, but I know plenty of engineers that own both and prefer the 103 for a lot of use cases.
Drake and Billie Eilish are the biggest / most relevant artists in the world right now and both their vocal sounds are the TLM-103. Drake is on around 50 Grammy awards / nominations now and Billie Eilish has at least 10. Her brother won both producer and engineer of the year Grammy’s for those recordings and I do think they’re more than just good.
Other famous vocal recordings with the TLM-103 include Crazy (Gnarls Barkley), anything by Alter Bridge, the first Vampire Weekend album, anything by Imogen Heap, James Blake, Duran Duran, plus numerous rappers and r&b artists. I’d struggle to name a single influential artist on the other hand that used a TLM-102 on their hit recording / album - it’s just a bit bland and noisy compared to the 103.
I just don't think those theories stand up nowadays.
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I would question the idea that the 103 is any sort of first choice or gold standard though. I've never seen one in a top level studio. Most of those artists you reference are people who had a hit with a low-budget home recorded album. Pretty sure that Drake's producer moved to a Sony C800G as soon as they struck it big for example.
There’s a good chance if you didn’t like it when you last tried it then you’d love it through a different preamp. I’m primarily running it through a Neve 1073 which is a great match (into an Apogee Symphony mkii), but it genuinely sounds better than my Schoeps CMC64’s, Slate ML1, AKG c414, Sm7b etc on a lot of voices / applications.
Again, YMMV.
I would think its very similar to the OC18...I did look a that one as well but the Neumann cropped up locally.
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