Glenn Bucci's review of the Rode K2 continuously-variable, multi-pattern tube mic...

http://www.studioreviews.com/rodeK2.htm

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Does, too.. does, too...

someone please give me $700.

Now it does. Thanks.

Funny how we all hear things differently, huh?

I have been using the Rode K2 for several months now, and recently while doing vocal tracks at a studio here in Twangville, I used my Rode K2 alongside a 4060 and a Neumman U-87. I thought the K2 sounde better than both of those mics. As the review states, the K2 has a sweet high end. In comparsion to the Lawson L251, which I think is a simply wonderful mic, the top sounded similar but the L251 was far more robust and big sounding, especially on male vocals.

I didn´t like K2, it´s not bad but... 2247 will see MUCH more daylight in here.

-Kaapo-

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Tom Strohman said, "I have never heard my flute captured like this even in the big studios"... "Warm, round, gorgeous tone."

My first choice was to use a Neumann U87 for both Tom's flute and sax. I had already set up my new K2 (just out of the box) so I ask him if he minded playing through both mic's. When we listened to the U87 track it was OK, it caught the instrument but nothing to rave about. When we turned up the K2 track, Tom's eyes got big, and right away he stated, "Wow, what warm, round, gorgeous tone"... "I have never heard my flute captured like this even in the big studios"... The K2 is truly a keeper. No eq or compression was used or needed.

In all fairness to the U87, it is not a tube mic however it is an industry standard mic used for recording wind instruments and therefor, rightfully challenged.

You can find Tom on sax/flute in concert or recording with:
Cher, Eddie Fisher, Della Reese, Patti Page and rock and roll legends, Johnny Winter and Dan Hartman, jazz group Third Stream...

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My wife and I picked up a K2 over the weekend up in Nashville. Now she barely picks up her guitar anymore - she says the K2 is her new instrument of choice. Last night she was in the vocal room for a couple hours with headphones on, just singing and singing

I did a few backing vocal tracks with it, man is it responsive!

Anyone done any tube rolling with the 6922 in the Rode K2?

has anyone who has a used a K2 compared with a NT2000? they are the same capsule and I thought they sounded quite similar. I have tried a K2 on one occaison , and it sounded very familiar after the NT2000 which i use daily. I didnt have both in the same place at the same time though.

I have a NT2000 and am a little mystified why its so often dismissed, when many like the K2.

it sounds nothing much like the NT1000 which is rather harsh IIRC

any thoughts?

also the NT2000, while smooth, is really quite bright, I thought the K2 was also quite bright, but its rarely described that way...

I picked up the K-2 a few months ago, after hearing a friends K-2, I really like it alot. I bought 2 AT4040's also. I know some people don't like the 4040's, but I think they sound good on overheads/cymbals. But these are the first decent mic's I've owned.

Is the K2 the same as the NTK except for multipatterns? Would the NTK give the same great sound?