Guitarist Shawn Tubbs demos a dBooster in his home studio using a Royer R-10 ribbon mic and a Shure SM57 dynamic mic on acoustic guitar (tasty playing!). The dBooster is the industry’s cleanest in-line preamp for studio use and driving long cable runs on live stages.
The R-10 is a fraction of the cost of our flagship R-121 and is an excellent studio and live ribbon microphone. Get to know it in this video.
Session musician Andrew Synowiec recording acoustic instruments in his House of Syn Studio.
All instruments recorded on a pair of R-122 MKll ribbon mics
6) Ukulele
7) Martin Acoustic Guitar
8) Baritone Acoustic Guitar
9) 12-String Acoustic Guitar
In this video, Los Angeles session guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Synowiec demonstrates how he uses two R-122 MKll’s, permanently mounted on a movable stereo bar, to record all of his acoustic instruments in his Los Angeles based George Augspurger-designed House of Syn Studio.
Visit www.andrewsynowiec.com to learn more or to contact Andrew.
Here are 16-bit WAV files of each of the instruments in this video.
Acoustic Guitar, Nylon String
Bouzouki
Dobro
Taylor Acoustic Guitar
Charango
Ukulele
Martin Acoustic Guitar
Baritone Acoustic Guitar
12-String Acoustic Guitar
Recorded live at the Folk Alliance Convention, in the Sweetwater/Royer/Mojave Pop-Up Studio
Stereo Room Mic – SF-24
Cello – SF-2
Violin & Violinist Vocal – SF-2
Acoustic Guitar (left, into small guitar amplifier) – R-122V
Foot Taps – Mojave Audio MA-100’s
Acoustic guitar (right) – Mojave MA-300
Vocals – Mojave Audio MA-1000, MA-300, MA-301
Darlingside came into our Pop-Up studio with a few friends and a ton of energy, worked out the final details of the song on the spot, then killed it in this beautiful take.
Engineers: Dan Ankney, Nathan Heironimus
Mixed by Dan Ankney
Recording Chain: Royer Labs and Mojave Audio microphones fed into Universal Audio 8p’s. Recorded to Pro Tools.
Sweetwater Studios, Royer Labs and Mojave Audio set up a portable Pop-Up studio in a hotel conference room at the 2016 Folk Alliance Convention in Kansas City and recorded a number of artists and groups attending.
Darlingside “Birds Say” (© Darlingside)
Acoustic Guitar – SF-1
Violin – R-121
Banjo – SF-2
Standup Bass – R-122
Drum Overhead – SF-24
Drums, Tom-Toms – R-122
Drums, Kick – R-122V
Drums, Hi-Hat – R-121
Producer: Fab Dupont. Engineer: Meredith McCandless
When our friend Fab Dupont set out to record singer/songwriter Will Knox’s album “The Matador And The Acrobat” with engineer Meredith McCandless, they decided to track the album entirely with Royer ribbons (except for a condenser on Will’s vocal and a dynamic on the snare). Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the recording process that Fab and company so kindly put together for us.
Vocals & Guitar: Will Knox
Violin: Clayton Mathews
Banjo: Kyle James Houser
Standup Bass: Chris Anderson
Drums: Timur Yusef
Visit Fab’s website at www.fabulousfab.com. Visit Flux Studios at www.fluxstudios.net.
Puremix.net is an educational website featuring a wide assortment of videos on recording, mixing, mastering and much more. Puremix.net was created by Fab Dupont; his partners in Puremix now include Ben Lindell and Ryan West.
Vocals – R-121
Banjo – R-121
Acoustic Guitar – R-121
Performed and recorded by Michael DeTemple.
Recording chain: R-121 directly into a Roland 1680 recorder in Michael’s home studio.
Banjo, guitar and vocal recorded separately using one R-121, then mixed in the Roland 1680.
“Fishin” (traditional)
Vocals – R-121
Acoustic Guitar – R-121
Engineer: Richard Dobson
Recorded to DAT in Richard’s home studio.
One forward-facing R-121 on vocals.
One R-121 on acoustic guitar, with a condenser mic lightly blended in.
“Silent Night” (Joseph Mohr)
Vocals – R-121
Acoustic Guitar – R-121
Drum overheads – R-121
Producer: Shawn Sullivan. Engineer: Kyle Homme.
Recorded to Pro Tools at World Class Audio, Anaheim, CA.
One back side R-121 on vocals and acoustic guitars. Two R-121’s on drum overheads.
Sean Sullivan was the original discoverer of the backward R-121 recording technique. Due to our patented offset ribbon element, the back side of the microphone is slightly brighter than the front side when placed within 3 ft of any sound source.
“Again” (Dan Sistos & Jevon McGlory)
Microphone Comparisons
Saxophone – R-121, Coles 4038
Trumpet – R-121, Neumann U-67, RCA 77DX
Acoustic Guitars (Steel String, Nylon String, 12-String) – R-121, Schoeps 221B
Electric Guitar – R-121, SM-57, Coles 4038 (being overstressed)
Drums – R-121
Recorded by Steve Albini
Recorded at Electrical Audio, Chicago, IL.
In Royer’s early days, when many people didn’t understand ribbon microphones, Steve Albini was kind enough to make a number of educational recordings for us which we included on our first demonstration CD. Steve is a well-known, well-respected engineer who has plenty of experience with ribbon mics and thousands of engineers and producers have learned from these comparison recordings over the years.
Tape Op Magazine reviewed our Demo CD #1 and said this about Steve’s recordings:
“The ‘something special’ though is the Microphone Comparisons with Steve Albini at the end of the CD. Steve goes through and compares the R-121 to other mics (Coles 4038, SM57, etc.) and provides us with his wonderful dry commentary. We love ya Steve! Truly one of our favorite CDs at the studio these days.” -LC
All of Steve’s comparison tracks are here, along with his original commentary.
Saxophone (Coles 4038, R-121, close R-121, distant R-121)
Trumpet (Neuman U-67, R-121, RCA 77DX)
Acoustic Guitar (Steel string – Schoeps 221B, R-121 / Nylon string – Schoeps
221B, R-121 / 12-string – tube condenser, R-121, condenser and R-121 blended)
Electric Guitar (SM-57, R-121 / Coles 4038 being overstressed)
Drums
Classical Guitar – R-122V
Produced and Engineered by Adam Del Monte
From the Adam del Monte Performance Series.
Guitar built by Francisco Manuel Diaz, Granada.
Recording Chain: Audio on all videos recorded with one R-122V into a Millennia Media TD1 Half Rack Recording Channel, light EQ applied, into a Lexicon reverb.
