The mic was built around a ribbon element, providing good dynamic response. The design was created in CAD, and was initially intended to be constructed out of three seperate pieces.

When the Fletcher of Mercenary Audio first learned of Roswellite’s development, he challenged the company to come up with a ribbon microphone suitable for a kick drum. After more than a year in ...

Ribbon mics are a great addition to your mic palette and this one could be the perfect combination of old and new ...

TRUE Systems has begun shipping the P-SOLO Ribbon, a single-channel microphone preamplifier. The unit uses the same circuitry as the company’s multichannel preamplifiers, but with additional gain and ...

See Also: Ribbon Microphones Rally for Vintage-Audio Geeks Birth of the Microphone: How Sound Became Signal So it was no small boon when, over the last decade, a crop of cheap, Chinese-made ribbon ...

Mic repair Kane’s career shifted again in the 1970s as RCA’s business began to change. This machine was created to corrugate the ultra-thin aluminum strips used in ribbon microphones. It dates to the ...

The UR-1 USB Ribbon Microphone's velocity dynamic ribbon diaphragm is housed in an all-metal body with a double-shielded grill, finished in gold and silver, and is complemented by low noise, high ...

However, their Woodpecker ribbon mic, while handsome, is a steep jump in price for beginners; start instead with the APEX 210 ribbon mic. Common wisdom holds that phantom power sources like the Icicle ...

Ribbon microphones are among the oldest and simplest recording devices, but after a heyday in the 1950s, they lost popularity. They lived on as icons of industrial design and were the favorite ...

While carbon microphones were widely used in broadcasting until the late 1920s, they continued in use in the telephone industry up until the 1980s when the use of miniature electret condenser ...

The microphone suspends the ribbon between the poles of a permanent magnet. As the ribbon vibrates, the motion and the magnetic field generate a voltage measured by two contacts, one at either end ...