Topic: new affordable Royer?

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

http://www.royerlabs.com/R-101.html

Anyone heard much about it?  Looks like they can be had for around 650 a piece.     

[ArchivalAudio]

yeah but it's still only

Frequency Response: 30 -15,000Hz +/- 3dB

ther upper end mics are (closer) to 20- 20k

[audBall]

Yeah, but this is a ribbon mic.  It's not going to have a response up to 20kHz. 

I'm pretty sure you could classify Royer as "upper end".   

Not a bad warranty either:

Like all Royer mics, the R-101 comes with a lifetime warranty to the original owner and the first re-ribbon is free.

[ArchivalAudio]

ahhh Actually I see that all Royer's run about 30-15k
even this: http://www.royerlabs.com/SF-24.html  its' Frequency Response: 40-15,000 Hz +/- 2dB  check out the tracks of the Wailin' Jennys - they sound killer!
I do know I have seen a couple of ribbobn mics that are 20 to 20k - somewhere....


I found a couple: http://www.bluemic.com/woodpecker/#/specs/  20-20k
and  SE Electronics Voodoo VR2 http://recordinghacks.com/microphones/SE-Electronics/VR2  20-18k

compare: http://recordinghacks.com/microphones/Royer-Labs/R-101


--Ian

[illconditioned]

ahhh Actually I see that all Royer's run about 30-15k
even this: http://www.royerlabs.com/SF-24.html  its' Frequency Response: 40-15,000 Hz +/- 2dB  check out the tracks of the Wailin' Jennys - they sound killer!
I do know I have seen a couple of ribbobn mics that are 20 to 20k - somewhere....

Ok, that is incredible!!!

The sound is transparent and natural.  The image is excellent.

One stereo mic.  Why does anyone bother close mic'ing instruments and all the usual studio tricks ??


  Richard

[Jamos]

I have an engineer friend who has used these and he says they are almost identical sounding to the 121. 
A couple years ago we did a mic shootout on a string quartet with about 6 different pairs of mics including some 121's in blumlein.
They were, without a doubt, the most natural gorgeous sounding pair...and we had some other great mics in the mix, including cmc6/mk4's, km84's, senn mkh's, and even an LSD2 for fun.

Just throwing it out there, but I bet this mic would be a huge winner for acoustic music.

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Oh man I love me some Wailin Jenny's.  They are the best.  That stereo mic is what I dream of owning.  Sick recordings.  I'm just shocked you can get a pair of these for the cost of 1 R121.

[rmx]

Oh man I love me some Wailin Jenny's.  They are the best.  That stereo mic is what I dream of owning.  Sick recordings.  I'm just shocked you can get a pair of these for the cost of 1 R121.

Check this out http://www.royerlabs.com/walinjennys.html

[raymonda]

yeah but it's still only

Frequency Response: 30 -15,000Hz +/- 3dB

ther upper end mics are (closer) to 20- 20k

Ribbon mics have never been about a wide frequency response but rather their midrange magic and what they do really well.  That being said, there are a few newer ones that give you full range. Oktava ML53's with the improved transformer is suppose to be really nice. They use shorter daul ribbon to achieve a wider frequency response.