AEA R44C Bi-Directional Ribbon Microphone

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Richard Greene, a fiddler who played with Bill Monroe, owns an AEA R44C and uses it for all his fiddle recordings. His wife likes it on her violin recordings as well.

R44C Bi-Directional Ribbon Microphone

Custom investment-casting bronze yoke, hard-wired 10 ft XLR StarQuad cable, chromed brass shock mount / mic stand adapter, and AEA 44VC vertical case. High-Output 'X' motor option available.

Over sixty years ago, when audio was on the cutting edge of physics, teams of this country's brightest engineers were developing equipment for sound recording and reproduction. They could afford to work without the commercial constraints placed on today's designers.

RCA developed a superior series of recording and broadcast microphones that included the 44BX and 77DX. The 44 and 77's smooth top end and uncolored sound make them studio favorites today. They are also visual icons of an era when technology and glamour were synonymous.

R44C

• Bi-Directional Ribbon Microphone
• Classic sound and appearance.
• Precision crafted and hand assembled
• The tradition continues.
• R44CX version provides substantially more output suitable for dynamic
• range of digital recordings,film scoring or use with lower gain microphone preamps

The R44C is truly a modern Classic. Its exterior speaks for itself. Close inspection reveals a design based on the technology that made the original RCA ribbon mics classics, and use of as many of the original type materials as possible. Painstaking research by ribbon mic specialists has gone into making the R44C sound as good as it looks.