The latest product of the collaboration between sE Electronics and Rupert Neve Designs, is the RNT Rupert Neve-Designed Tube Microphone.
More than ten years in development, the RNT, combines a high-voltage tube circuit within the microphone itself, a floor box with a discrete, class-A amplifier circuit using the same custom op-amps as Rupert Neve Designs’ flagship 5088 analogue mixing console, two of Rupert’s custom transformers, and a custom mic capsule designed by sE to provide extreme headroom (153dB) and high-bandwidth frequency response.
Given its headroom, the mic has no need for a pad, but the amplifier circuit in the floor box has three gain settings of -12dB, 0dB (flat) and +12dB. The amplifier circuit in the floor box is ±2dB from <1Hz to 100kHz, and flat from 1Hz to 30kHz. Operating on ±36V DC rails, this circuit can handle the max capsule voltage without any possibility of clipping. The floor box also has a three-position high-pass filter at 40Hz, 80Hz and 0 (off), and a nine-way selector switch to vary the polar pattern from omni to cardioid to fig-8, with several steps in between each.
The RND will begin shipping in Q3 2015.
More: www.seelectronics.com
