Downloadable - Sonic Studios

There has been more than one person mentioning that Len at CORE creates at least some of his own user comments!!! These same
comments have been on his site for a very long time and the 'tone' and language of the ones that directly down Sonic Studios seem (at
least to me) to be from the same person if looked with the perspective of a hand-writing analysis.
I have been supplying DSM microphones since 1985 (far longer than any of the 'other' businesses that were inspired to follow) and
have maybe 100 written comments on satisfaction with the DSM product and service. While some are very enthusiastic, I don't have
the kind of 'tone' that is represented in the CORE site and it's extremely rare to find any of them (some also CSB owners) really badmouthing
CORE, they just don't go out of their way to say things like that. About the only comments that mention CORE from recent
customers are more in the form of liking the DSM product better and maybe a rare ' glad to not have to use those anymore' remark. I
do have these from REAL people but stopped supplying these comments unless permission was directly granted to use full names or if
the comment was actually published for general viewing in a magazine.
There are now enough tape traders using DSM microphones that private type user comments are now far less valuable to the
researcher than the experience of an actual traded series of consistantly good sounding tapes from honest unbiased sources. For
you and those just getting into the hobby, finding truthful information is more challenging and in this case, bound to be confusing.
Professional users are another matter, a lot of them have taken the tack of 'best kept secret' so that their competition has less
advantage! Wyle Stateman of Soundelux (seen in many recent film credits) is just one of many who's taken this stance while also
telling me that DSM are his favorite field mics; takes them everywhere.
It may help to note that when ROCK venues started getting much louder (bigger speakers & amps in the PA market; users acquiring
moree effective earplugs), there were some DSM microphones with too high a sensitivity, presenting audible mic limited overloads
and/or overloading the deck's limited input range with too much signal. The solution was much lower gain mics and listening to the
results from user tapes when problems occured. These overload problems have been solved for over 5 years now and maybe that's
why comments seemed to be from users of the older D7 decks which were much more easily overloaded than the previous D3 DAT
model.
I hope this helps you in making the best descisions for your situation. Let me know what more can be done to assist.
Best Regards in Sound & Music Recording,
Leonard Lombardo, Sonic Studios(tm)..."Making Audio History With DSM(tm) Microphones"
TEL: 541-459-8839 /\ FAX: 541-459-8842 /\ USA Free: 1-877-347-6642
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Subj: Re: mic query "The continued.......!"
Date: 02/26/98
To: howardc@
Hello again Howard,
I'll address the issues & questions as best I can in the body of your mail.
In a message dated 98-02-26 07:00:34 EST, you write: