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gavwynne105

Joined: 24/01/11
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Oktava ml 52-02
#918137 - 04/06/11 02:11 PM

Hi

Have been reading up on the Oktava Ml 52-02. Seems to be an interesting microphone. Anyone with any experience using it? Worth the cash or would I be better going with something else?

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Sam Inglis
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Re: Oktava ml 52-02 new

[Re: gavwynne105]
#918368 - 06/06/11 08:14 AM

I had one of the Electro-Harmonix badged versions (not sure if it was the 52-02, probably the older 52) and couldn't get on with it at all. It was very dark yet also very gritty and harsh, not smooth like I would expect a good ribbon to be. Meybe I just got unlucky.

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SimonZ

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Re: Oktava ml 52-02 new

[Re: Sam Inglis]
#918395 - 06/06/11 08:56 AM

Not unlucky Sam, again the older 52 (so this may not be fair) those stylish looking ribs over the top of the dome can be played with your fingers, much like one of those small African thumb pianos, but really out of tune.
This seems to add a weird background wash of very unmusical harmonics to anything loud.
And yes, gritty and harsh, which may be partly the transformer.

The ML 53 (Same ribbon motor in in a 319 body with a Lundahl transformer) looks like a confession to the above sins.

However, maybe the ML 52-02 is the new 'we fixed it' version.

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