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4. Groove Tubes Velo 8. The Velo 8 brought instant smiles to our faces, with its lovely, smooth, dark, rolled-off top end. It is perhaps not the mic to choose if you're looking for an all-rounder as, like the Sontronics Sigma, it sounds seriously 'vintage', but it is a lovely character to have available.
SE Electronics' R1. The R1 is a new design and the only ribbon in SE's range of mics, but rather than being a tweaked, rebadged 'generic' Chinese mic, the R1 is built from scratch in SE's own Shanghai factory. The company say all their mics are hand-made, and the visibly high standard of workmanship supports this claim.
The sE V3 and V7 are both hand-held, moving-coil vocal mics powered by neodymium magnets. sE Electronics V7 (left) and V3. The V3 has a cardioid response with an on-axis frequency response of 50Hz to 16kHz, which is pretty healthy for this type of microphone. Its presence peak is nice and broad, which avoids adding nasal-sounding coloration ...
Neumann TLM103. The TLM103 is, of course, a complete impossibility — it has supposedly been designed to a project studio price whilst retaining the qualities of Neumann's top‑flight, large‑diaphragm U87. Ask anyone involved in sound recording to name a mic manufacturer off the top of their head, and the chances are they will say "Neumann".
CM12 $695, CM47 $735. orders@advancedaudio.ca. www.advancedaudio.ca. Buy PDF version. Next article. Advanced Audio mics aim to provide vintage German tone but at a fraction of the price of the classics.
The Shure SM7dB includes a custom designed built-in preamp with technology licensed from Cloud Microphones, tuned by Shure engineers specifically for the SM7dB. The result is a mic that is outwardly pretty much identical to the SM7B, until you look at the end plate. The high‑pass and mid‑boost filters from that mic are present and correct ...
Road Test. Listening to the AT4040, it sounds clean and quiet, giving the impression of crisp detail combined with a fairly warm bottom end. These are familiar AT traits. The polar response is much as would be expected for a large-diaphragm mic, in that it tends towards a hypercardioid pattern with increasing frequency, growing a distinct rear ...
information. AT2035 $149; AT2050 $229. Audio-Technica +1 330 686 2600. sales@atus.com. www.audio-technica.com. Buy PDF version. Previous article Next article. Industry stalwarts Audio-Technica introduce two new microphones that offer a similar character to their popular AT2020, but with better performance and additional features.
Audio-Technica's new entry-level mic puts in a star performance. Audio-Technica's new AT2020 is unashamedly a 'no frills' mic, with basic standmount and a soft zip-up vinyl case. The polar pattern is a fixed cardioid, and there are no switches for pads or filters. Slightly smaller than Audio-technica's other side-entry vocal mics, the casing ...
To universal surprise, it was the Audio Technica AT2020. The C12VR came a very close second place, the difference being that the AT2020's sound just seemed to put the vocal in its rightful, prominent place up-front in the mix. So that was the cheapest mic on test, followed closely by one of the most expensive! Male 'Crooner' Vocals
