Has anyone clipped S2 on their RI u67 (or have a switch installed) and have audio examples of the two... a/b's we can hear?

I don't have an OG U67, but I have just recently received a OPR Plan 6 Ultra (U67 clone/tribute), and this mic has an internal switch to go back and forth. Interestingly, when Mark at OPR uploaded sound examples of an OG U67 vs his Plan 6 Ultra it was immediately apparent that he'd left the switch in on the mic as the examples were widely divergent in the low end. He confirmed that in a follow up reply :-)

I've only been belting into this sweet treat for a couple of days, so no sound examples yet. But I will try to put some together in the next week. Even if the OPR isn't gauged to be fully indistinguishable from the OG U67 by those in the know, I think the plus/minus switch examples may give you an idea of what cutting the S2 on the OG U67 might sound like.

BTW- The OPR Plan 6 Ultra is a genuinely tasty mid range. I am super happy so far. It's so *not* like the 47-ish and 87-ish mics I have. Just preeminently gorgeous detail in the mids that are somehow counterintuitively softened with a bit of saturation. And, it takes a high shelf in the most delightful way.

https://www.openplanrecording.com/pr...r-plan-6-ultra

I don't believe an audio example of someone else's U67 Reissue will help you: The capsule in these mics has a tolerance of ±2db; that means, at any given frequency point two U67 will still be within tolerance if they deviate by 4dB.

Frequency deviations between mics are especially large in the bass region which is largely defined by diaphragm tension, due to the hand-made nature of the capsule (Neumann mic amps rarely deviate by more than 1/2 to 1 dB).

Rather than guessing how someone else's U67 compares in the bass region to yours, I recommend that you snip the black wire which forms S2 in your mic, listen, and if you find the low end too prominent, solder it back in.

Oh it's that simple? Oh ok... thanks. May try.

Although, I do think audio examples would help just to see the difference between the two on a given mic. But I get your point.