Recording industry legend Mr. Rupert Neve has spent years crafting the
techniques utilized in the RNR1, and his decades of experience are on full
display in the class-A, discrete circuitry topology he implemented with his
own custom wound transformer designs.
sE Electronics’ Siwei Zou and Rupert Neve made microphone history as they unveiled the new sE Electronics RNR1 active ribbon microphone on Friday 3rd October 2008 at the AES Convention in San Francisco.
”There is really only one thing to say about the sE4400a - it is fantastic!’
The 4400a is the latest in a lineage of mics started 6 years ago with our sE2200a. Based on the same capsule tuning, but with a dual capsule to give multi polar pattern function, this mic is a rarity… a true all-rounder.
“I got the Gemini at the same as another high quality German mic costing over three times as much turned up for a review I was doing. I asked other opinion’s before I said mine and almost 100% said they preferred the Gemini”
“when people sing through the Gemini, it sounds like they are three feet closer to the mic compared to others, which gives you a more modern sound – that’s addictive!”
especially liked the R1 ribbon mic. Very smooth and realistic. Great as drum overheads or on a guitar amp.
In an effort to help clean up the drum sound FOH engineer Jon Burton turned to SE for help. “As we were also recording the most recent shows, I wanted to get as clean a sound from the drum mics as possible”