Thanks for featuring my music Ricky! If anyone’s curious this song is called Cygnus and it will be released later this year

This was amazing, Ricky. We are so glad you love the Clarion! To your question about the boost/pad switch - that is a pre-JFET circuit, so it actually affects the timbre of the mic itself, as well as your preamp (-10 is a hair warmer/+10 is a bit brighter). The slight imbalance in the shock mount is just shock band tension between the inner and outer ring. A little pulling on the bands themselves should fix that. The classic shock grind? Yeah, it's not you. It's because the ring does not have a bearing system, which has been proven to last forever. Having said that, it could be better so it should be better. We will look at it for sure.

They are in Silicon Valley, Silicone Valley is a nickname for L.A. due to the popularity of Breast implants there. Silicon is a crystal like Diamond and is the substrate used to fabricate Computer chips, whereas Silicone is an OIl, Grease, Rubber material make with some Silicon powder and other ingredients. There is a pretty big difference between computer chips and the caulk around your bathtub.

I hate that grind too 😂

My next mic will be the Lauten Atlantis, but I’m hearing great things about the Clarion!

"If someone knows how to do it and not feel really uncomfortable when they do it, leave it in the comments." That's what she said.

Add a touch of dry lube.They sell it at home depot in a spray can it last quite a while . It has a saw blade on the can. It's made by PB blaster I believe.. Just don't spray it with the microphone close . Bring The shock mount outside, spray it but it lasts quite a while and it will screw on nice and smooth. That's exactly what it's for a situation where you don't want liquid running. I use it on all my saws and saw blades, I'm a carpenter but I didn't get a good enough Look at that box to be able to tell what type of wood it is looks like a really straight ,plain grain. I'd have to have it in my hands to really be able to tell . Thanks for the info. I love that mic. You try the Mojave's yet. I have a Mojave MA-300 large diaphragm tube condenser. It's killer. All of them are great and really affordable. Made by David Royer. That mic might be a little to forward and transparent but I'm listening on a sound bar at the moment so not the best reference.

That Soyuz is magnificent.

Lautens top of the range (ish 2000$) is in my opinion, better than any neumann in most given situations. With that said, then taking price into account, it's a no brainer of a mic company. Maybe you wouldn't get a vintage U47 sound exactly out of a vocal, but if you'd take the same singer in front of the mic, that made u47 look really good, like Frank Sinatra in the hay day, it would maybe even sound better on the lauten than on the Neumman :)

Really glad i found this, i had been thinking about getting a 103 but this probably sold me against that

Here less than 10 minutes after this drop. The cinematic openings are just unparalleled. I don't need a mic, but I watch every single thing this guy puts out.

I've never heard your voice sound so smooth and rich. This microphone sounds PHENOMENAL for you. I'd love to hear one in person. Love it. I love the OC18 and I'd love to hear this next to one.

this channel deserves way more. all your reviews are amazing

I stopped watching gear videos for a while since I had a few things come up, but holy shit, the production quality of your videos absolutely SKYROCKETED, I’m super impressed with the editing color correction and lighting, good efforts dude

Look forward to seeing the new direction of the channel. I love your mic reviews but I’m much more interested in what to do with the mics we already have.

I was looking for a new mic and your review convinced me to go for the Clarion. I also never click on links to buy stuff but I made an exception time. You are so humble that I feel that if I can do at least something to support your channel I will do it. Please keep putting such a good and fun content.

Thank you for reviewing this bomb of a mic!

Great review! I am sooo close to picking up an LS-208 for my home studio streaming setup and it's nice to learn more about Lauten.

The mic blind test was brutal (for the other 3 mics that is). And honestly, this is the first time I hear a vocal mic test that sounds fantastic. I don't know if it's the mic, your voice, the post-processing, the room or probably a bit of all four, but the final result is amazing.

Nice review, especially the blind test of the four mics! :)) I liked the 3rd one (Lewitt 640 TS) best in this blind audition and thought it was the clarion. And for the A/B-listening-sample of your friend singing and playing the guitar, I think the recording even sounded better unprocessed! :D But nice job anyway. <3