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ADK Custom Shop Vienna 12-Au FET Transformer Cardioid Condenser Microphone
ADK Vienna 12-Au
 
List Price: $1,299.00
Our Price: $899.00
Sale Price: $799.00
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Product Code: 8077-2

 

Front End Audio frequently has gear that has been opened and used briefly for demonstration purposes in our showroom or studio. Our demo gear functions and looks just like new and comes with a full manufacturer's warranty, as well as our commitment to service. So if you don’t mind an occasional fingerprint or a second layer of tape on the box, then you can grab a great deal today!


ADK Custom Shop Vienna 12-Au Microphone Details

The ADK Custom Shop Vienna 12-Au model is based on a unique FET circuit that saturates gradually (unlike most condenser microphones which tend to clip abruptly). The microphone boasts an Australian-designed capsule, British Oxford transformer, hi-end Phillips Norelco uber-FET. manufactured with methods and materials usually found with hi-fi equipment, including even a $6 resistor - expensive considering most resistors cost just a few pennies each. It took three microphone experts including a PhD in Physics, a design genius in Belgium and a 40 year-old microphone collection to create it! Add two-way attenuation pads (8 and 16 dB) to enable end-user to tailor the dynamic behavior of the microphone to the situation and obtain new textures, with rarely the need for outboard processors or even equalization.

ADK Custom Shop Vienna 12-Au Microphone Features

  • Premium Aluminum Flight Case
  • Shock Mount (with a replacement set of elastics)
  • Ring Mount
  • Foam Windscreen
  • Pop Filter
  • 15' Accusound CX-4 Pro Quad XLR Cable: The CX-4 Series cables feature quad oxygen-free copper conductors and Neutrik connectors.

ADK Custom Shop Vienna 12-Au Microphone Specifications

  • EQUIVALENT NOISE LEVEL: (A-Weighted per IEC 286-4) < 15dB Typical
  • SWITCHABLE LOW FREQUENCY CUT-OFF: 1st Order, -3dB @ 100Hz or 160Hz
  • SWITCHABLE ATTENUATION PAD: -8dB or -16dB
  • SPL FOR THD <0.5% (1 kHz): 134 dB w/16dB Pad
  • SENSITIVITY: -32.5 dbV = 23.72 mV/Pa
  • OPERATING VOLTAGE: 48VDC Phantom Power

What We Think - ADK Vienna 12-Au Review

"The ADK Custom Shop Vienna 12-Au is a fantastic microphone! It's perhaps the only solid state microphone in it's price range which sports a "C12 style capsule" of it's quality of sound and construction. In fact, this is the same capsule you'll find in the premium ADK Custom Shop CS-12 microphone, which is as fine sounding a microphone as you can hope for in a C12 style microphone. You're not just getting a microphone here; you're getting a complete package. Seriously, there is nothing more that you'll need here, except for a microphone stand... and Front End Audio includes one for you - but not just any stand, this is an Ultimate Support Pro-T-T which is a premium quality, heavy-duty microphone stand. Any way you slice it, the ADK Custom Shop microphones are a tremendous value, but also sound fantastic and musical without any hint of a brittle top end, which is all too common with an microphone with an airy top-end. Try it out if you're after this kind of sound - you won't be disappointed."

Alan Moon - Front End Audio

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