{"id":48387,"date":"2017-10-07T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=48387"},"modified":"2017-10-04T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:55:08","slug":"5-good-condenser-mics-500e-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/gear\/5-good-condenser-mics-500e-video\/","title":{"rendered":"5 good condenser mics under 500\u20ac &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By paving your way into <strong>recording<\/strong> stardom, you may face a very big problem: what&#8217;s the right <strong>large<\/strong> <strong>diaphragm<\/strong> \/ <strong>condenser<\/strong> <strong>microphone<\/strong> for me? The market is filled with different <strong>models<\/strong> so we, your favorite team, decided to try <strong>5<\/strong> of them and stack &#8217;em up to see and clearly hear the differences. 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