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Xaudia offer microphone re-ribboning and repair services.

2017/12/11

Reslo Beeb drum recordings by Joe Montague


It's always great to see and hear how our customers use the microphones we send out.

Joe Montague was kind enough to share these recordings and video of our Reslo Beebs in action. The microphones were set up as a stereo pair in front of the kit.



The recording in the video/sound clips is just the Beebs, no other mics at all, and just a touch of EQ and compression. It is an impressive result from just two microphones. Of course, you need a good kit as well as good microphones, and being a great drummer helps too!

Here are some further sound clips from Joe.

Drum groove 1
Drum groove 2 
Drum groove 3 
Drum groove 4
Drum groove 5

Joe can be found at joemontague.co.uk

2017/12/01

BM9 Ribbon microphones from Extinct Audio

I haven't had much time to blog this year, which has been partly due to working hard on a new project. Finally, after years of fixing, testing, upgrading and procrastinating.... Adam and I finally launched our own brand of ribbon microphones. 

Introducing the BM9 from Extinct Audio. I have been heavily involved in all stages of the design and manufacture of this baby. It is a general purpose ribbon microphone with a true figure-8 pattern, low noise and a big proximity effect. The aim was to produce an excellent blend of vintage sound and modern utility.


http://xaudia.com/SoundClips/BM9_SmallAcousticStereo.mp3



Electric Guitar

http://xaudia.com/SoundClips/BM9_GretschStrum.wav

http://xaudia.com/SoundClips/BM9_FramusElectric_Vibrato.wav

http://xaudia.com/SoundClips/BM9_FramusElectric_Clean.wav

http://xaudia.com/SoundClips/BM9_FramusElectric_Chorus.wav


Drums

http://xaudia.com/SoundClips/BM9_Drums_OveheadsOnly.wav

http://xaudia.com/SoundClips/BM9_Drums_OveheadsOnly_RollingFloorTom.wav


Update - there are now many much better recordings over at the recordings pages of the Extinct website. But these were the first recordings that Adam and I made with the first production microphones, so let's leave them here for a little bit of history.