BRIAN LOUDENSLAGER: Hi. My name is Brian Loudenslager, and I'm the founder of Lauten Audio. I'm here today to talk to you about our Horizon tube microphone.

The Horizon tube microphone is a classic lollipop-style design in terms of the body. It is built like a tank which you might see some of our reviews out there mentioning. It is meant to be a workhorse microphone. It is a cardiod-only tube mic, but it does feature a -10 and -20-dB pad, which makes it useable on everything from loud guitar amplifiers to snare drums and it has a bit hotter output which makes it great for the home studio guy and less dependent on preamplifiers, if need be, and it makes it great for room mics.

The Horizon comes with both a shock mount and a hard mount, so it offers versatility for placement in your studio. It has an external power supply, and the Horizon has had great success for the past couple of years actually on everything from acoustic guitars to guitar amplifiers to snare drums and even as far as using it on live applications, so people have used it on guitar amps live on stage. It has great off-axis rejection and everything from mandolins and things like that live on stage, so it's really built as a workhorse and it has been proven.