Weird Audio - Little Red Monster Microphone? (ELAM tube mic)

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Please listen to the mic. Weirdaudiotech.com. They sound fantastic! It all comes downs to sound. Go to the samples on the website weirdaudiotech.com
Please, let's do a mic shoot out at a neutral studio. The truth is in the sound. We can open mics up as well, THE LITTLE RED MONSTER and the other mics too. See the difference - hear the difference.

Tommy here.
CEO
WEIRD AUDIO
weirdaudiotech.com.

Let me say, I appreciate your input and concern regarding these mics and I think I can allay your concerns if you will give me a chance. Please give me a chance. We are the underdog for sure. I could start by giving you my bon-fides in the business but most aren't going to read that far. I will say I got really upset as I dug down the rabbit hole regarding the big three mic companies that once produced fabulous mics to find that in general they were ALL selling knock offs of the originals. I knew I could come up with great mics in a pure pragmatic process that sounded better. Let's start with current scenario: Blue once made some of the finest hand made mics in the world, (I still have an early serial number hand-made Latvian Blue)but they were bought by Logitech, famous for mass production of cheap computer keyboards, etc., and now mass produce cheap mics that aren’t always so cheap! Neuman bought by Senheiser, Georg would turn over in his grave! Senheiser mass produced dynamic mics but had no experience with top shelf boutique mics. Neuman actually mostly used Gefell capsules, by the way, but on their website, you see a picture of a metal lathe as though they were traditional CNC experts and craftsmen in that regard. Senheiser certainly is not. But then again they quit polished brass tension rings on their capsules years ago and now use plastic on their K capsules whereas we use highly polished brass. Then there is Telefunken: By the way they never even built the ELAM 251 of yesteryear that was made by AKG and what they are making now is pure knockoff look a - likes (that I can have built for a few hundred dollars each) and sell for thousands. Well, it's not Telefunken anyway, it's Telefunken Electrocaustic, an American marketing company, that bought the rights to use the name Ultimately, most all of em then turn to the Ningbho district of China to mass produce knockoffs of the originals. All of this PISSED ME OFF! Young dudes graduate these schools here in Austin and believe they have to sacrifice themselves to buy crap because of the name on it. By the time I got way down deep in the rabbit hole I had developed sources in Asia where I found I could buy some of this stuff right off the line for a few hundred bucks each and I was tempted to do so - Not!!! I was REALLY PISSED! I felt used! The creative arts were enslaved and duped by this bullshit!

We’ve been brain washed into believing the emperor's new clothes are dope. Star cracking open mics and comparing to yesteryear. It’s all come down to cheap mass production and maximum profit. That being said, come to Austin with any doubter of my mic with your fav 67 and shoot out with mine in a neutral studio. Invite the magazines. We can get some attention I promise. Might get Rupert to check in - you never know - he lives 30 miles from here these days. I'll slay that dragon. No Bullshit. Let's do the real damn thing! My $550 mic against the $5,500 mic and don’t even bring a piece of crap fet fake!

Back to Ningbho district. Ningbho uses a variety of corpoarate vehicles used to represent a group of mic element maker groups basically subsidized by the State.  There are various names thus used in this district when going to market, and they private label and or build for damn near everyone one thing or another. Do not get me wrong! There IS definitely some fabulous mic making talent there but not behind every door. Many of those doors open to cheap mass production where there is a market. China operates this way - you want chemicals or lab creations, bio medical - that's the Wuhan district, Apple phones are made in another district. (Whole cities have been built for that!) You want microphones - that's Ningbho. Now there is major slight of hand going on. You can get your goods delivered to America and do final assembly here and say your mic is American made for example. Even when they are really assembled in toto here inside you are going to find electronic components mostly made in China even when they are painted and labeled some other way. How do I know? Even before I knew all of this I started opening a lot of mics, have been for years actually. Take the time to find certified production white papers. Go see them make these hand wound American transformers and caps. Arrange to buy some "off the line.” And at the door! Watch them make them and ask what goes inside. I'm going to be doing video blogs on all of this soon.

Back to our mics. When we decided to make mics we were all from the business and not the DYI - do it yourself - side. We wanted the stars of CNC processes, and sputterists (lol) gold or otherwise.(We have our own PVC M7 capsule coming out soon for you purists, btw) We wanted simple but elegant electronics packages and in truth - mic electronics are not complicated. We wanted the best that could be made by the guys that made the best stuff in each area of the mic. We wanted a sleeve that was striking and a name that was memorable, and we wanted to sound better than the big corporate knockoffs, but once more we wanted mics that sounded fabulous, and thus was born the LITTLE RED MONSTER.

Point one – mic sleeves – we went shopping: SLEEVES DO NOT MAKE THE MIC in most case by the way – the sound does. MANY microphones out there these day share the exact if not similar sleeve as other mics. Case in point: All of the ELAM 251 copies out there, everyone has a yellow tube these days, Warm Audio, Alctron, Telefunken Electrokaustic, add infinitum. The U47 sleeve is ubiquitous!!! By the way: We make one and I think we might just have the best one ever made - go listen to our sound files at weirdaudiotech.com/u47 PLEASE! be sure to listen to the clip in the video bottom page, Fly Me 2D Moon, and compare that to Frank Sinatra's original Fly Me To The Moon that he remastered in 2008, always using the best gear in the world! But, in sleeves, WE DID NOT WANT TO LOOK LIKE A NEUMAN or a this or that, we shopped high and low and landed on one that Alctron also uses - one other mic! They can't even be used in NORTH America right now, those sleeves!!! Guilty! we use a sleeve that one other mic uses! We uses a similar, ubiquitous power supply. Go look at all the clone world first please!!! From U87's to Beta 57's so many copy cat sleeves! Now what is inside our mic? Magic. Magic design that we don;t have patented nor does anyone (Elon Musk who I have come to love recently said ANYONE CAN USE OUR PATENTS! Basically that if anyone can iMprove on them it helps us all. That said, We definitely tweak our design and offer it to anyone. I doubt they know our capsule magic and other tricks.

We use a very strange tube in the LITTLE RED MONSTER these days, hand-made in Germany, the 12AW7WAR. YOU WON'T FIND THIS TUBE IN ANY OTHER MIC WE KNOW OF! Our mics sound incredible! Look at our accolades on the website! LISTEN TO THE SAMPLES. When the CEO of a sound company contracted for many major motion pictures not only loves the mic, but sends us samples free of charge he likes the mic so much, it's like praising one of my children. Soon, same dude is going to check out our versions of the U47 as well. It was such an honor to be invited into his domain and watch him test the LITTLE RED MONSTER. You have to see the PROOF OF THIS and listen to it on website. weirdaudiotech.com. He APPROACHED US! Was so very cool. It meant the world to me! He and his guys new Steven Paul mods and all of it, but they loved our LITTLE RED MONSTER!

Now then, why was the LITTLE RED MONSTER advertised with ELAM 251, U67 LIKE title? Two reasons, it compares very favorably in dynamics with them both but mostly for search results. On those particular channels, in this day and age, the LITTLE RED MONSTER would never have been seen without this bs. Not always going to be that way. Joneppstein is absolutely correct about the capsule wiring difference between the two mics he mentioned.

And as to the bullshit about the buy-back. It's not bullshit. I stand by that. Buy it now and I will buy it back gladly, in ten years for twice what you pay for it now. That offer is good until October 1. Our price is going up again as our overhead increases. There is more to come from us, believe me. And the more detractors we get the more opportunity we get to tear the gust out of our competitor’s mics and practices. Some of that could get real messy if some of you guys are not careful because I will literally tear down builds via video blog. But, I am going to quit taking shots at the local builders. Forgive me you guys. Give me a weak and I will change the wording throughout our adds and public statements. I want to be totally in the corner of the local guys. I have the utmost respect for their endeavors. Let’s help and not hurt each other.

And, lastly, in person I am not an arrogant ass and I hope I don’t sound like one here. I am definitely not like anyone you know. Story is long and not always wholesome. Maybe a little bigger than me in it’s craziness. So many miles. I’m grateful to be alive. It’s a miracle. But at 63, I’ve recorded double platinum artists and double Grammy winners, written some unknown books and songs, I can curl, 185 lbs (that’s very rare), bench over 315 for reps most days (not so rare), and do 505 pound shrugs for reps (a little on the rare side). I cut my teeth in the business in LA many years ago, top of the tower, Capitol records, wide-eyed intern for a minute. Ben Edmonds was my mentor. Later I did a lot of stuff I never got credit for. So be it. Today, and, by God, (quite literally), I have some of the best damn mics in the world! Come see me. Ill prove it to ya. All the above. Maybe buy you lunch, dinner, or both. Jam some in the studio or get some acoustic magic going on the back porch, kick it some of awesome live venues we have here. Would love to meet ya.

Tommy
WEIRD AUDIO

I am still amazed that on a few voices there is no better mic than the cheapest Chinese LDC FET. The first time it pissed me off, now I just roll with it.

I am still amazed that on a few voices there is no better mic than the cheapest Chinese LDC FET. The first time it pissed me off, now I just roll with it.