Live Sound
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are using a
AEA
R44C "big ribbon" tm mic for their duet that finishes the show during their current Soul to Soul tour.
Recording
Emmy Lou Harris's song Connection that won a Grammy for best
Country Vocal this year. It was recorded / produced by Brian Ahern who told me
that the vocal and all instrumentals were done with an AEA R44 CNEX . He had planned to switch mics if the sound was wrong, but it always sounded right.
Richard Greene, a fiddler who played with Bill Monroe,
owns an AEA R44C and uses it for all his fiddle recordings. His wife likes it on her violin recordings as well.
R44C
Bi-Directional Ribbon Microphone
Hand-crafted, museum quality 44 Reproduction
Built to order by our Custom Shop, other finishes available.
Sculpted bright chrome and black "Radio" finish with the sound, look, and
heft of the 1936 44B classic. Ribbon material was manufactured for RCA
in the 1970s.
Custom investment-casting bronze yoke, hard-wired 10 ft XLR
StarQuad cable, chromed brass shock mount / mic stand adapter, and
AEA 44VC vertical case. High-Output 'X' motor option available.
Over sixty years ago, when audio was on the cutting edge of physics, teams of
this country's brightest engineers were developing equipment for sound recording
and reproduction. They could afford to work without the commercial constraints
placed on today's designers.
RCA developed a superior series of recording and broadcast microphones that
included the 44BX and 77DX. The 44 and 77's smooth top end and uncolored sound
make them studio favorites today. They are also visual icons of an era when
technology and glamour were synonymous.
R44C
- Bi-Directional Ribbon Microphone
- Classic sound and appearance.
- Precision crafted and hand assembled
- The tradition continues.
- R44CX version provides substantially more output suitable for dynamic
- range of digital recordings,film scoring or use with lower gain microphone
preamps
The R44C is truly a modern Classic. Its exterior speaks
for itself. Close inspection reveals a design based on the technology that made
the original RCA ribbon mics classics, and use of as many of the original type
materials as possible. Painstaking research by ribbon mic specialists has gone
into making the R44C sound as good as it looks. |
