From Arturo Sandoval to Jerry Hey to Wayne Bergeron to Bill Reichenbach to Gary Grant, great brass players know the way to a killer recorded or live brass sound includes a ribbon mic on your instrument. If you haven‘t tried it yet, get ready to have your world changed.
You how hard it can be to capture brass instruments. You don’t play screechy or thin in the studio or live, so why does it sound that way so often? If you’re playing your instrument well , it’s the microphone you’re using, not you. The answer is a good ribbon mic. Brass and ribbon microphones were made for each other.
Royer R-Series microphones deliver consistently warm, natural brass recordings, with all of the high-end brilliance, midrange and body your instrument produces, and none of the harshness, ever! Every Royer R-Series ribbon mic was designed to handle up to 160 dB (@1kHz), so you can wail into an R-121 or any other R-Series ribbon with full confidence it can handle it all day and night.
Passive, active, or even with a tube, there’s a Royer ribbon available. The lineup goes from the more affordable R-10 and R-12 (our favorites for live brass), to the legendary R-121 (an industry staple for brass for decades ) and R-122 MKII ribbons, and culminates with the R-122V vacuum tube ribbon mic for the highest end studio capture.
Try one yourself, and you’ll understand why today’s top players don’t do sessions or live shows without a Royer in front of them.