U47 vs Warm Audio WA47jr: Can a $200 mic sound as good as a $5000 mic?
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The Warm Audio WA47jr is a great sounding, budget friendly microphone that sounds great on drums, acoustic guitars, electric guitars and even vocals.
However, how does it compare to the legendary tube U47 originally made by Neumann and now Telefunken?
In this video I compare the Warm Audio WA47jr to a real tube U47 on vocals and then mix both of those vocal tracks so you get to hear the raw sound of each microphone, as well as the mixed sound of each. I also show you the exact processing I used to get the WA47jr to sound as close as possible to the real U47.
@eattofuholmes 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for learning how to sing before doing demo videos, it has been so difficult to find videos where I can stand to sit there and compare.
@adamfiascoVEVO 4 ай бұрын
Haha - thank you! I’m by no means a great singer but I enjoy it a lot! I’m usually singing harmonies and Backing Vocals rather than lead 🤣
@JohnnyCarterMusicOfficial 2 ай бұрын
Very impressed with the entire production of this video dude. Great songwriting, great vocals, very clearly presented information which all in all made an incredibly helpful video. Gave us exactly what we needed with no faff. Great content ! got a new subscriber in Australia !!!
@adamfiascoVEVO 2 ай бұрын
Hey Johnny. Really glad you found the video useful. Thanks a lot for checking it out and especially for the comment. Appreciate ya 🙏🏼
@JohnnyCarterMusicOfficial 2 ай бұрын
@@adamfiascoVEVO all good mate
@AndrewCCM 5 ай бұрын
Doing my part to get you to 1000... Nice vid. I own that 47Jr....I find that running it through a tube pre (in my case, the WA 2MPX) helps smooth out those upper mids...
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
Thanks Andrew, I appreciate ya! Yes I imagine that does help! The classic advice is solid state mic into tube pre or tube mic into solid state pre!
@jeremythornton433 5 ай бұрын
Glad I found your channel. So much so that I subbed! I also have WA47jr. I'm still getting used to it even though I've had one for almost 3 years now. I received a Lewitt LCT 240 Pro for christmas and I fell in love with it right away. It just works. I see you use Cubase. I do too. Are you using a mixer with it? I'd love to know how to integrate my Presonus Studiolive Series 3 with my DAW.
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
Hey Jeremy thanks for the sub! I’ve heard nothing but good things about Lewitt mics - still need to get my hands on one though. I do use Cubase - I’m using it with a Slate Raven MTi2
@deryckroche 5 ай бұрын
It would make more sense to put a Tube mic up against another Tube mic to hear the difference. The WA-47 Large-Diaphragm Tube Condenser is the mic I think you should of used $949 MSRP.
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
I think both are valid comparisons. There are a ton of comparisons on YT of the WA47 vs a real 47, so figured I’d go a different angle and compare mega cheap vs mega expensive.
@prod.hallow 3 ай бұрын
The wa47jr is meant to be a clone of the fet u47@@adamfiascoVEVO
@dkokalanov 4 ай бұрын
BTW man I hear such a difference in the dry takes that I actually hear no similarity. And a U47 is famous for needing a very good EQ to really shine. What I appreciate though is how you nail the surgical EQ knowing exactly at which frequency the notes were. Lot to learn from you there!
@adamfiascoVEVO 4 ай бұрын
Hey man. Thanks a lot for listening and for your comment. Appreciate ya 🙏🏼
@KyawKyaw-vp8ms 4 ай бұрын
what preamp do you use? btw the song is really good! Thanks for delivering beautiful song to. the world and mixing!
@adamfiascoVEVO 4 ай бұрын
Hey - the preamp here is a Neve 1073. Glad you like the song - thank you :)
@globalgospelmusicvevo421 2 күн бұрын
47jr sounds good but man the U47 is massive! Big difference between them.
@adamfiascoVEVO 2 күн бұрын
I agree. Very noticeable in the upper midrange!
@weakattheknees_ 5 ай бұрын
I think the real 47 sounds way better, even listening through phone speakers. But the Warm Audio mic still sounds good.
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
Yeah. I think this is a classic case of you get what you pay for. The 47jr is fine. But the real 47 is just in a different league
@KyawKyaw-vp8ms 4 ай бұрын
pretty good btw whats the song name?
@adamfiascoVEVO 4 ай бұрын
Hey… thanks for commenting. The song is called ‘One I Need’ by The Fiasco Here’s the official release… open.spotify.com/track/6wTG58wkb3CJAFsgxBqCqL?si=qRu9AZe8TWuaidh8FmVe7g&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2INFNGzCtxdjtKUL8zCiOK
@ignadrs 5 ай бұрын
the WA47jr has it's mids and high mids a bit more forward, a bit thin on the low end, but nothing that a bit of eq (pre-comp) and saturation can't fix to be honest.
@ignadrs 5 ай бұрын
lol i wrote these as soon as the vocal examples finished, then you said exactly what i said about the WA-47jr
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
@@ignadrs haha yeah… that stood out to me too on the raw takes. The 47jr definitely needing a bit more attention with EQ in those upper mids. Another thing that stood out to me though was how much better the real 47 took EQ and compression. It just got better and better and was so easy to deal with in the mix. The 47jr not so straight forward.
@ignadrs 5 ай бұрын
yeah the Warm 47 is really little in size, not so the U47, so i imagine the Warm's capsule may even be slightly smaller, this can really make the difference! @@adamfiascoVEVO
@Wilmer778 Ай бұрын
Yeah, the real U-47 sounds much better! BUT... I've heard that the WA-47 (not the Jr. version) really comes damn close to the original U-47. :)
@adamfiascoVEVO Ай бұрын
Yeah I’d love to get my hands on the WA47 to compare to my U47. Unfortunately I only had the 47jr available however I still thought this made an interesting comparison putting up their cheapest mic against one of the most revered mics in the world.
3 ай бұрын
U47 by far.
@sojournerfornow 3 ай бұрын
Great demo. The Jr sounds like a cheap hyped china mic to me... nothing like a 47
@adamfiascoVEVO 3 ай бұрын
Thanks man glad you found it useful. And I agree - in isolation the 47jr might sound decent but when you put it side by side with a real 47 the differences are pretty apparent.
@sojournerfornow 3 ай бұрын
Your demos are excellent... all meat and no fat. Exactly what users need to know/hear in concise packages. Thanks to you... great resource.@@adamfiascoVEVO
@BengtSkogvall 5 ай бұрын
I think the different is really stark. The real 47 is way better than the warm audio 47. Not only sonically, but the voice sounds big with the real 47 and rather small with the warm audio 47
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
Totally agree. I think it’s important to remember the price difference though - the WA isn’t a bad mic and is decently built. But a real 47 just sounds stellar and has a way of making a vocal sound big, warm and so well balanced.
@jsmacks11 5 ай бұрын
Real 47 seems to cut through the mix better. it seemed to highlight the musical parts of the vocal and the vocal seemed very intelligible. The Warm Audio seemed to have more extreme high presence, but at the same time not cutting through like the 47. Both sounds good though.
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
Hey, thanks for commenting. Yeah the 47jr is definitely brighter and more present. For my voice it came out a bit harsher and thinner so the real 47 sounded better imo. Especially once it was sat in the mix! However on another singer that extra brightness could really help and sound great.
@dkokalanov 4 ай бұрын
If you sell an original and well-preserved Neumann U47 for 5000 USD please send me a PM.
@adamfiascoVEVO 4 ай бұрын
Haha me too - it’s a weird one with the U47 and I wasn’t sure what price tag to put on it. In the end there are many excellent clones that are crazy close sound wise that can be had for this general ballpark figure! Which seemed like a fair price point to go with!
@tommj4365 5 ай бұрын
The warm audio one sounded like there was something stuck in the singers mouth
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
Haha. I found it sounded a bit ‘spitty’… for lack of a better word lol.
@anatol1204 5 ай бұрын
Nowadays the problem are not the mics its somewhere else
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
How do you mean?
@anatol1204 5 ай бұрын
@@adamfiascoVEVO Masterpieces where made with sm 58 or sm7b so the mic is not the problem we don t need all that gear we need something else that was but now it's missing it's that "simple".
@adamfiascoVEVO 5 ай бұрын
@@anatol1204 sure they have! But if a 58 doesn’t suit a singer then it’s not gonna sound great. Just like a 47 might not be a good match for certain singers too. The best gear or signal chain is the one that sounds best for a particular source.
@anatol1204 5 ай бұрын
@@adamfiascoVEVO I know these things very well that's why I insist in what I'm saying.The problem is not the gear but ALSO ITS "the gear" ..too much of it too little in everything else and THAT IS the problem.Our generation mostly imitates it does not inspires or is inspired it just " makes things" and that s all
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