Royer

High-end recording microphones don't come cheap. Well, they didn't used to, anyway. If you've been thinking about selling a kidney to beef up your mic locker, put down that home surgery kit for a minute and take a look at what Matt Boudreau has to say about the R-101 ribbon microphone from Royer. Black market organ futures may never recover.  

Ideal for miking electric guitars, brass instruments, and drums in the studio or onstage, the soon to be released Royer Labs R-101 Ribbon Microphone offers high SPL capabilities, low noise, multi-layered wind screening, and much more.  

While many guitarists work their entire lives trying to attain that Holy Grail that is "perfect tone" buy going through endless permutations of pedals and other tricks, GW's regular blog contributor Steve Kirk thinks they're trying too hard. He shares his thoughts on getting great guitar tone the easy way.  

AES 2006: Royer gives Gearwire's Rob Warmowski the skinny on the internal workings of their ribbon mics. Check out the Royer transducer assemmbly from the Royer SF series; the ribbon is 37 millionths of an inch thick!...