Warm Audio WA-47 Large-Diaphragm Tube Condenser Microphone

The WA-47 is designed for pro studio, home studio, live, and broadcast applications and sounds great on vocals, acoustic/electric guitars, acoustic/electric bass, drums, piano, strings, brass/woodwind instruments, and an array of other sources. The classic 47 became extremely popular in the 1960 s and is now considered one of the greatest microphones ever made. The classic 47 is still widely used today in professional recording studios but have become extremely rare and expensive to acquire. Designing the WA-47 to sound like the classic 47 was no easy task, especially considering that some of the vintage components are no longer available. Warm Audio has compared and listened to 2 different vintage 47 mics and found that they both sounded amazing but also sounded a little different from each other. These comparison tests became the benchmark for tailoring our WA-47 sonics to sit right in with these 2 vintage 47 mics. Warm is pleased to release such a gorgeous sounding classic to the market at a price that s reachable to more people than ever before. They are also proud to mention that the WA-47 sounds legitimately indistinguishable to the vintage 47 s auditioned on several sources.As with all Warm Audio products, they have focus heavily on quality components to ensure we release the best sounding product possible. The WA-47 is packed with top end components that are carefully sourced from many of the top pro audio component suppliers in the world.True '47 style capsuleThe WA-47 utilizes a custom reproduction of the vintage k47 style capsule that was used in the classic 47 microphone - designed with the same hole pattern and frequency response. Every Warm Audio capsule is made in the same small assembly house in a clean-room environment, and packaged in its own protective jewel case until the moment it is loaded into the microphone. Each capsule is visually inspected and electrically tested for imperfections.A large part of any microphone's tone co