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

I am so with you on this. We're not sure exactly where our particular Williams family line came out of the British Isles, but that chilly British weather is deep in my bones somewhere. Every summer I think there's no way I'm going to make it through the heat. I've been to Iceland twice now, both times in winter. The weather was great. 

And smelly too! Maybe that's why they use Texas Pete hot-sauce in the microphones?

yeah, paging tommy?

Yes, you called?  Oh...you mean the other Tommy...

Tommy can you hear me?

Yeah, meant totally tongue-in-cheek. Or, tongue-in-hot-sauce per gwlee7.

People here are always interested in discovering a new excellent mic that's affordable. This isn't the slutty site. Many members here have stellar track records and are authorities in their own right. If you've got something special, they'll know and pass it along to everyone else.

We come here for the comaraderie, insight and help. This is THE best place to introduce a new pro audio product to the masses.

So why all the antagonism?

Before they were well known and successful, I've helped quite a few companies get started through my videos and posts. You should simply send one of your mics to Vincent and me to try. You'll get 100 times more value that way than they way you're approaching this.

My favorite quote from tommy's last post:

"I will be back again to wade through the bullshit. Peace and Love to you guys in the interim."

I'm getting a split message here, Tommy. LOL.

I know little about everything.
And everything about little.
Including Rich Little.

Chris

HELLO MY FRIENDS!

Vincent you are right! There are several tube combinations we use but part of our secret sauce are the hand made German 7025 and 7025WA tubes we use in our Weird 47 setups. We had been featuring NOS RCA 7025 tubes as an upgrade, but we found something even better. Most people don't understand that a REAL 7025 is a special, military grade tube. In truth, why would they? There are more relevant trivia to life in general. But for us mic guys this is a key to the treasure map. Real 7025's as new tubes had pretty much disappeared, and some of the NOS versions were terribly expensive. From my field of reference Red Tube company or what is now Shuguang (and always was behind the scenes) resurrected the tube in a meaningful way. The Shuguang is a very good, consistently functioning tube, but our German friends make them better. It was a risky move to design a mic utilizing a 7025 under the circumstances but our results were incredible and I am so glad you have heard and recognized them! But our goal was never to clone backwards the 47 like everyone else but to create forward what the U47 should have evolved into and THAT is exactly what our WEIRD 47 Mod 1 is. Our quest was to be pragmatically true to the SOUND. Not to get caught up in component worship.

But let me also speak again to our capsules. We work with several but we now have two that are ours. The capsule you hear on those videos is our main, 35mm capsule. Here is why it is superior to our competitors. First of all it is a dual back plate, dual diaphragm, capsule with FULL BLEED gold sputtered aluminized Mylar diaphragms. What is a FULL BLEED diaphragm? Our sputtered material goes all of the way to the edge of the surface not just a dot in the middle - but all of the way to the tension rings - the O rings. Additionally, our tension rings are highly polished brass and make for a better reflective surface. Also we use precisely spaced and uniquely tensioned screw placements around the the rings. We don't have separate mounting screws like you see on all made for Neuman - Gefell capsules. Neuman no longer uses brass tension rings either, they use plastic, and they use a 45% gold sputtered dot on their diaphragm Mylar. We get a more pure transduction, more accurate by far, that translates into a warmer sound when channeled or shaped I should say through our tube and Rubicon capacitors.
etc.

Now then, here's our big announcement, we now also have a capsule the purest will love. We have a 34mm PVC gold sputtered aluminized dual diaphragm SINGLE back plate capsule modeled in concept on the later K style capsules in that we use brass tension rings. PVC was the first 47 diaphragm material. The earliest version of the K capsule like Thiersch still makes did not use screw attached and tensioned O rings, the diaphragms were glued on. Anyway, these capsules have that full bodied, deep but sharp PVC sound that makes any voice sound so professional. I want to keep talking here but I work all the time and never get enough done it seems. I will be back soon though. Never fear! I have not forgotten you guys. So many things I would like to address and add evidence to, to possibly break the psychic chain of thought that prevails in mic tech. We don't have to worship at the alter! Or bow down to the masters!