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Update: The 2 MA-101s I have for sale (see separate listing) are officially a matched pair – please see the last pic of the box for proof. If you need both together and the bidding hasn’t started on either please contact me and I can switch to buy-it-now for both. After the bidding has started I can no longer switch to buy-it-now.
I have 2 of these for sale so any duplicate items you see are genuine.
Very little use. It was used mainly as an all round studio mic and excelled on every source you’d expect a high quality SDC mic to be good on (and some that you wouldn’t!) for sessions for one album only.
These Mojave Mics are gold dust. I use Mojave and their sister company Royer’s mics almost exclusively. I’m keeping the twins I have for all of them so don’t think I’m offloading them because they are unloved. I love them too much.. I’m just downsizing!
Here’s what Tape Op magazine have to say..
Heres a relatively new, pencil-style, solid-state condenser microphone with interchangeable cardioid and omnidirectional capsules from the folks at Mojave. Notably, the electronics were designed by David Royer and are the exact same as the guts in the Mojave MA-201fet (Tape Op #70). This means you get a lot of mic for not a lot of money big fat Jensen transformer, super-low noise floor, and what Mojave refers to as a military-grade FET. (Drop and give me twenty, electrons!)
I really like these tough little mics. Mojave sent us a matched pair, and my first application for them was as an X/Y stereo setup capturing the room for a live recording at The Make Out Room in San Francisco. For this live session, I used a Metric Halo Mobile I/O 2882+DSP as the mic preamp and front end for a Logic 9.1 (Tape Op #74) project clocked at 88.2 kHz. The cardioid capsules were used, and my setup was quick and dirty. Now, I have never been super-stoked on my MIOs preamps; I know that many users rave about them, but I often find them just a little bit bland. (As a side note, I do look forward to getting my 2882 scaled up with the 2d card upgrade and have heard that this dramatically changes the preamp options via new DSP.) However, I was quite pleased with the stereo capture using the Mojaves. It was full and clear with no transient distortion and definitely gave the session an almost binaural, right there in the room quality. The low end was represented nicely as well, which for me is always a challenge with location recording. All in all, the stereo room track was a huge success for this particular live recording and was featured heavily in the resultant mix.
Having checked location recording off my list, I was excited to get the mics back into my studio to employ them in some sexy, high-SPL drum tracking. Howd it go?
Let me just say that the MA-101fet rules on snare.
Oh, and on toms.
And kick. And overheads. And, um, guitar amps. And acoustic instruments. On effing CONGA!
Lets rein this in a bit, though. One of my favorite gear combos was recording snare top and bottom with the pads engaged, using a Vintech 473 (Tape Op #77) as mic preamp (no EQ, polarity reversed on the bottom source) clear, energetic, and airy snare with excellent transient response and good isolation due to the tight polar pattern of the cardioid capsule. Note that to engage the 15 dB pad, which is a dipswitch mounted on the circuit board (to keep costs down and maintain reliability), you need to unscrew the mic housing which can really put a damper on a session. But the mic does have pretty guts, and fortunately, the MA-101fet already has huge headroom (rated at 125 dB max SPL with pad off, 140 dB pad on), so its not often that the pad is even needed. Not a deal breaker in my opinion, but something to plan for when tracking extra loud sources.
Holy crap, what a flexible high-grade mic! Its like Ducati had hand-built the SM57, or something. What I mean to say is, Ive never really found a pencil mic that so quickly became my go-to mic for such a diverse range of sound sources. Its the kind of mic you want three of. About the only thing I didnt record with it was my Stylophone, and Im pretty sure that wouldve sounded great too.
And here’s why I’m selling..
I am radically downsizing my studio created over the last 5 years as I have a move imminent. So much stuff has to go. All of it loved but most of it very little used as I created the studio for an album project which is now finished. Most of the recording was done a while back with mostly mixing, editing and the odd instrument being recorded when needed.
Other than that the studio was not used for anything else so everything Im listing spent most of its life carefully stored away in a dry, smoke free environment.
I am keeping a bunch of stuff but only things that Ill be able to easily take with me – I do have a whole lot of other stuff to list but that will have to wait now. Whenever I bought a microphone I always bought them in pairs so I have a version of each that I am keeping so Im not exactly slumming it now!
Ill try and find some good and funky info to include in this listing but I trust that you, dear reader, will be able to find out some of the things I miss. I have 16 listings to fill the gaps in so I might not be able to find all the juicy technical details.
Please be assured when I specced my studio I went only for the best quality gear. Equipment that had been specifically recommended to me personally by recording industry pros who I know and trust. The listing that you see here (and all the other listings) were bought by me after much research and are (in my opinion) the best things for doing the job they were designed to do.
I hope you like them and if you bid and win you get every bit as much pleasure as I have out of them.
Please if you have less than 25 feedback (and less than 98% positive feedback) contact me before bidding.
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