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Product Description
The Artist’s Microphone
The Ocean Way RM1 microphone was designed, developed and engineered by pro-audio transducer inventor and technologist Cliff Henricksen. Cliff’s “one foot on the bandstand, one foot in the lab” musical life gives a balanced left-brain/right-brain approach to creating useful, technically-advanced and beautiful-sounding tools for all artists in the sound arts. The microphones are machined and assembled exclusively in America.
The RM1 was created to improve on well-known qualities of “large-format ribbon microphones”, namely low sensitivity (leading to a noisy processed signal), dull spectral output and difficult p-pop response.
The RM1 sounds beautiful
The RM1’s diaphragm is made from exquisitely-thin aluminum. It vibrates in a very intense magnetic field, creating unusually high output. The diaphragm’s output is amplified by a carefully-engineered and artistically-voiced, ultra-low-noise phantom-powered preamplifier, developed in collaboration with the LR Baggs Company of Nipomo, California. This combination gives the user a true plug-and-play setup that rarely needs equalization, even in complex ensemble mixes. The goal of “normal sound” (i.e., “high fidelity”) is a pleasant (and very useful) surprise to the first-time user. Integration of “SuperQuiet®” technology assures sonic purity, free of unwanted noise (see below).
The Grill and Pop-Filter System
A two-stage acoustically-transparent, non-resonant debris and pop/explosives filter system prevents the usual artifact of close-proximity pickup for vocals and instruments: First-stage, non-metallic, non-resonant protective grille of physically-tough, open-air, woven Nylon-Spandex™. Second-stage, integral, internal, sheer-knit, acoustically-transparent pop/debris filter also improves lose vocal applications and added ribbon protection. Using an RM1, an artist can simply go to work and not have to think about “technical issues” involving sonic aesthetics (Equalization and p-pop signal overload).
The RM1 looks beautiful
Aluminum case components are softened and matte-surfaced/softened as part of the manufacturing process and finished with an attractive but unassuming hard-anodize outer coating. The first-stage grille is stretched so that it exhibits a graceful geometric form and pleasing color. The microphone was designed as a pure “Form Follows Function” creation.
Features
Specifications
| Diameter | |
|---|---|
| Length | |
| Frequency Range | |
| Number of Microphones | |
| Polar Pattern | Bi-Directional |
| Transducer Type | Ribbon |
| Tube or Solid State |