The Insider's Guide to Home Recording by Brian Tarquin

Author:Brian Tarquin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Figure 4.4 The wonderfully revealing sE Classic ribbon tube microphone

Erik Christian Photography

sE RT1 Ribbon Tube

The RT1 is probably one of the best ribbon tube microphones. Unlike other ribbon mics, in which you have to really push the gain on the pre-amp to get the output up, the RT1 has its own power supply. Thus, it has plenty of gain to print on tape directly!

I find it to be a very smooth microphone with the warmth of the tube, making it a real vintage piece right out of the box. It’s absolutely fantastic on electric guitar cabinets, in any shape or size. Many times I record two amps at a time through the Framptone Amp Switcher, using the RT1 on a Soldano Reverb-O-Sonic four-by-twelve and a Sennheiser 421 on a Fender Showman four-by-twelve cabinet. For a clean-sounding strat tone, this microphone is the one. It adds a nice silky sheen to the recording without coloring the tone of the source. It’s a real tone-capturing microphone for guitars!

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