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Royer R-122 Live Active Ribbon Microphone Nickel

$1750

Royer microphones are built to be tough and can handle the challenges of life on the road, but they are studio mics that require some TLC to keep from damaging the ribbon elements. With the Royer R-122 ribbon microphone from the Live Series, you get twice the durability in the ribbon element, allowing you to place it anywhere on stage you’d like with complete confidence. Tame high-end harshness and bring Royer’s legendary smoothness, warmth and power to your live performances.HowAfter extensive testing, Royer found new ribbon thickness for the R-122 Live microphone that allowed us to significantly increase durability with minimal reduction in gain and transients response. The sonic difference is negligible, and the increased durability lets anyone use Royer ribbons in a live environment.A Figure-8 Microphone on Stage?Surprisingly, figure-8 ribbon microphones are an excellent solution for bleed. Bleed can be a real problem with many onstage mics – not just the amount of bleed but the quality of the bleed. Here’s how Royers handle the problem.RejectionRoyer ribbon mics are figure-8, picking up sound from the front and rear of the microphone, and rejecting sounds approaching from a) the left and right sides of the mic, b) the top of the mic, and c) the bottom of the mic. These are extremely effective dead zones that engineers use to isolate instruments by positioning the mics in such a way that the dead zones face, and cancel, offending sound sources. Case in point (as told by Royer): “Aerosmith used R-121’s in the studio to record the electric guitars on their 2002 CD Just Push Play, but didn’t consider them for live use. While rehearsing for their follow-up tour, the bleed in the electric guitar mics was driving the FOH engineer crazy. It was suggested they try using their R-121’s and, after we assured them we’d replace the ribbons if they were damaged onstage, the band set up R-121’s on Joe Perry and Brad Whitford’s guitars. The mics eliminated the bleed problem so effectively (and sounded so good) that Royer R-121’s have been Aerosmith’s live (and studio) electric guitar mics from that day forward. In over five years of extensive use, they’ve only stretched one ribbon. An engineer on the crew told us that their Royers had a better reliability record than any of their other touring microphones!”Note: The polar response of the R-122 is the same as the R-121Off-Axis Coloration:There’s a lot of sound on a live stage and you can’t entirely control for off-axis information getting into microphones, even ribbons. Most microphones color off-axis information in highly unflattering ways, which is why bleed can sound so nasty. Ribbons don’t color off-axis information, so any bleed that manages to get into your onstage Royer Live mics will sound natural, not harsh or colored. About Royer Live Series mics:Royer Live Series mics (R-121L, R-122L, SF-24L) were introduced in 2008, making ribbon mics available to FOH engineers for the first time. As a group they

Nady ADI-2 Active DI Box

$49.99

The Nady ADI-2 is a 2-channel active direct inject box. This unit is indispensible for solving many audio mismatch and hum problems in numerous stage and studio applications. It features simultaneous dual inputs and outputs for multi source use while it’s stringent component selection provides absolutely flat, full frequency response across the entire audio spectrum allowing negligible distortion into the mix.

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