Episode 94 - AKG C1000 Possibly the most hated microphone ever?

The C1000, universally hated, but in reality a pretty nice microphone. In the 90s they became a sort of joke, yet people carried on buying them. They even had jokes doing the rounds - "What are C1000s best for? - banging in nails" was the one I remember. Maybe the shape, and the fact so many schools and colleges doing Music Technology, the new cool music subject, seemed to use them for everything generated the dislike - but reviditing them reveals they're perfectly decent mics. Odder was that they could be converted into hyper-cardioids with the little black piece of plastic in the box - that most people lost almost immediately!