Sound

With a figure-of-eight polar pickup pattern and wide apatures around the ribbon motor, Whelan ribbon microphones are designed to be as versatile as possible, leaving it to you the sound engineer to use microphone placement to find the sound that suits your project.

A lot of manufacturers will talk about how their ribbons sound 'warm', 'natural' or 'old-fashioned'. These terribly generic terms are often used also to describe ribbon mics as a whole, so if you are in the market for a decent studio microphone you want to know how it really sounds, right?

Audio Clips

For each clip I have included as much information as possible, the clips are in a choice of MP3 and 44.1Khz/16bit WAV (right-click and save to disk rather than trying to play these high-quality clips in your web-browser), together with a photo or diagram of how they were placed. If you would like to discuss arranging a demo of the mics at your studio then please contact Bobby using the details at the bottom of this page.

Audio Clip1 - Drum Overhead

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instrument: Ludwig Super Classic drums
signal path: Neve VR console input channel (EQ and Dynamics off) into Pro Tools

Audio Clip2 - Bass guitar

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instrument: Rickenbacker 4001 bass into Ampeg RocketBass 50 amp
signal path: Neve VR console input channel (EQ and Dynamics off) into Pro Tools

Audio Clip3 - Rhodes

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instrument: Fender Rhodes
signal path: Neve VR console input channel (EQ and Dynamics off) into Pro Tools

Audio Clip4 - Acoustic Guitar

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instrument: Gretsch and Martin acoustic guitars (panned left and right)
signal path: Neve VR console input channel into IZ RADAR24 hard-disk recorder

Audio Clip5 - Church Organ

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instrument: Christ's Church Guildford Pipe Organ (installed in 1909)
signal path: MOTU 892 SoundCard

Audio Clip6 - Guitar Feedback

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instrument: Aria acoustic guitar with Seymour Duncan pickup amplified by 1963 Ampeg Portaflex
signal path: Cadac 5556 Mic amp into MOTU 828mkII soundcard

Contact

Tel. 07735484908

Post. Bobby Whelan, Herons Rest, The Hollows, Brentford, London TW8 0DZ, United Kingdom.