[Leica] Other Cool Prewar German Gear (M7 of a different sort)

[rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri)]

Y'all -

So I was in New York again playing guitar on a recording and I swore I 
wasn't gonna snap on the session (music too complicated, requiring what 
mental powers I can still access to deal with all the Little Black 
Dots.)

However, when my parts were done the artist asked if I would come in 
the next day to help with the recording of the saxophone parts.  Long 
story short, none of the mics were sounding good so I leaned on the 
engineer to dig around for anything we hadn't tried.  He found this old 
Neumann (an M7, I believe, maybe from the '30's or 40's) which turned 
out to be the clear winner.  The sax player thought that the mic was 
such a significant part of the sound that he wanted a shot taken with 
it for the CD (Canon 20D w/50mm 1.8 Canon):

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/sterman_CD_SNAP_HC_small

This version seems to over-emphasize the mic, but the art director and 
the artist like it, so it will be... I do like the rendering quality in 
general.

Bob Palmieri