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Originally Posted by DupleMeter
The other Neumann that gets a lot of hate is the TLM103. That's another mic I really like. In fact...some of my best acoustic guitar recordings came about with a TLM103. Is it a U87? No! But that doesn't make it a bad mic.
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On that other forum, the chief 103-hater is yours truly. But not because of what it does to or for acoustic guitars.
When Neumann rolled it out, they did in fact call it a "modern-sounding" U-87. Sound On Sound printed a review that reiterated that. Suspiciously close to verbatim. And voiceover studios discovered that they could truthfully say, "Yes, we have a Neumann," and they could do it on the cheap.
But the fact is that, for up-close spoken word, the TLM-103 is pretty lousy in my opinion. And more and more commercial studios buy them for that purpose all the time. And why not? When there's a glut on eBay they can be had for $600 or even less.
But this site isn't really about all that, so I'll give it a rest.