[brandondrury]

I'm saying is, i have not had one good experience with any AT products.

I heard you. That definitely needs to be taken into account. How many experiences have you had with any mic company? It's not like a really give a shit whether you hate AT or not. The company is an excellent manufacturer of middle of the road recording gear, but they certainly are not all things to all people.

It's one thing for you to avoid AT. Go ahead. However, picking out a billboard saying "AT sucks" would get you sued. You need to understand that in a public forum you just can't say "Audio Technica never works" (this is what is implied with your post). This is very misleading to people who find this post from the search engines who are just getting started.

My entire goal for RecordingReviews is to maintain as much objectivity on the subject of home recording as possible. It's completely fine for a person to have an opinion. I've had nothing but bad luck with Behringer (except for their headphones). However, "I've had nothing but bad luck with Behringer" is TOTALLY different than "Pro Says Audio-Technica Sucks!". Surely you can understand this.

One of the ATM10s just stopped working as well, and i wasted like half an hour trying to figure out what connection/ wire was the problem.

And? So you've got a bad mic. That does happen. How old is the mic? How many times has it fallen out of the back of a truck on the interstate? You get the idea. Maybe that mic is junk. Maybe that model is junk. Maybe the company is junk (not in my experience). It's hard to say. However, you should go ahead and expect every piece of recording gear you purchase to break, because it DEFINITELY will.

Im just saying that I'd much rather spend my time researching another brand than a brand that has quite simply pissed me off with the products I have used.

Interesting. It appears that you would rather spend your time creating posts like "Pro Says Audio-Technica Sucks!". We all have to play the gamble. Try out AKG or whatever. There are plenty of kick ass mic companies out there.

For you, you have had good experience with AT.
For me, i most certainly have not.

Sure. I have no problem with you sayin that. Of course, you haven't really qualified your experiences. You even had to insert the hearsay from your teacher in your title to give your post clout. I can say that I have owned an AT 4050 since (which I bought used for $300) 2003 and it has never failed me. It's made it as lead vocal mic on many albums. The AT4033 mics I own have also been 100% reliable. I snagged a pair of them used in 2004. Overally, I'd guess I have a thousand hours of recording on all of these mics.

Oh yeah, all 3 shock mounts that came with these mics are broken.

Seriously, i did not mean to piss you off, man.

You didn't even begin to piss me off. My anger was 0% out of a 100% when I first responded just as it is now. (You should have seen me changing a hard drive in a laptop today. THAT was me pissed off. ) However, I did have to stand up for the integrity of the forum. You can say " I hate Audio Technica" your whole life and it won't effect me one bit. However, when we get into hearsay/bias/whatever land of unsubstantiated claims and such, I do have to counter. If your post would have pissed me off, I would have just deleted it.

So you are fine. You just need to have more facts and less "my teacher said" talk if you are going to call out a specific company.

Brandon