When you want to know anything, and we mean anything, about ribbon microphones, you go to Wes. Wes Dooley is the founder and lead designer with Audio Engineering Associates, and we spoke with him at AES about the new AEA KU4 unidirectional ribbon microphone.
The dark and sonorous environment that is Horse-Drawn Productions houses many fine and delicate tools, not the least of which is the AEA R84 Ribbon Microphone. Jackson Grimm admonishes us to handle and store this lovely thing correctly, all the while with an evil glint in his eye.
Coincidentally sharing its name with the most commonly known tuning frequency, the AEA A440 ribbon mic is a fairly new mic with early rave reviews. As Steve from AES tells us, it's the ultimate room mic. We check it out at 125th AES 2008.
AEA
presents the Ribbon Pre, designed especially, as the name implies, for
ribbon mics. The selling point of this pre? No phantom power. Other
features on this beauty include 300 kHz bandwidth, phase-reverse, and
instant...
Offsite Link: Check out the official AEA website for more info on their ribbon preamp
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