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psblochavez
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Hello, guys, this is my first post here, I find it amazing that there's such a huge community for us to rely on. I need help choosing my first ribbon microphone. I plan to use it on brass instruments, acoustic guitar, hand percussion, and to compliment it my new Soyuz 017 FET for other applications. I'll be passing it through a cloud lifter and an apollo twin mkII. I currently own most UAD preamp emulations, and I'll be getting a real 1073 soon. My budget for this is 1,300 USD tops, so I've narrowed it down to the AEA N8, R84, Royer 121, or the Beyerdynamic M160. Any thoughts?
Demo the AEA R92.
I really liked the AEA R84 too but imho it needs a fairly big great sounding room to do it's thing at it's best - it has a big ribbon sound if you can give it space to breath.
The R92 works better in a smaller project studio space and has far less proximity effect when close micing guitar, vocals etc it also has a bright and darker sides so that adds to it's flexibility.
I'm personally less of a fan of the R121 and prefer AEA ribbons.
The AEA dedicated ribbon pre the RPQ 500 pairs up like a dream with an AEA mic and removes the need for a cloudlifter.