Audio-Technica AT2035 Is Like The AT2020 Plus 15
Audio-Technica rolls out the AT2035, a microphone with a roll-off and a pad switch. Drawing from the popularity of common series microphones like the belle of the ball, the AT2020, the new AT2035 is designed for high SPL.
Unless your singer is literally an erupting volcano, your singer won't be able to outdo this mic.
GARY BOSS: This is Gary Boss here at Audio Technica with Gearwire.Com at the Summer NAMM 2008 Show. I have a few new microphones to show you. Microphone number one is the AT-2035.
Now, this is kind of building on the success of some of the other microphones we had in the 20 Series, the AT-2020 and the USB version of that. The AT-2035 brings a large diaphragm capsule to the line. It's a side address design, it's an electret design.
A couple of nice features about this guy: One is an exceptionally low noise floor of only about 12 dB. Now, this mic features both a roll-off and a 10-dB pad. With the pad, the microphone can reach a max SPL of up to about 158 dB so it's a really good all-purpose studio microphone. Again, if you're looking something for vocals, for drum overheads, for guitar cabinets, for piano, for strings, this is a very versatile all-purpose microphone that we're really happy to have it in the line. It also comes with a shock mount and a protective pouch.
AT2035 beats the AT4040
Don't bother saving up for an AT4040----The AT2035 is at least as good, or better for tonal clarity and total presence.
AT4040 is warm, but a tad "muddy" in comparison.
Id say you have to skip right up to the likes of an AT4047 to get to a superior AT mic.
AT2035 is a nice contrast to the popular German-style mics available today (see Studio Projects, ADK, esp.)
At $150 or less, just DO IT.
You won't ne sorry.
If you've got, say, an ADK Vienna or Studio Projects C1, an ADK Hamburg
and an AT2035, you should beable to do justice to almost any kind of singer.
Your little studio will be truly, "loaded for bear".
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