Steve Mac Buys First Big Ribbon A440 In Europe From KMR

Audio consultancy and equipment supplier KMR Audio have supplied Rokstone Studios with the first AEA high performance phantom-powered Big Ribbon A440 to be sold in Europe.
Rokstone is owned by producer Steve Mac who has achieved recent success with Il Divo and Leona Lewis.
KMR Sales Manager Keith Malin said: "Inspired by AEA's forty years of experience with ribbon mics, particularly 44s, this mic has the greatest useable dynamic range of any ribbon microphone manufactured today. The A440 is also the quietest ribbon microphone in existence."
Steve Mac adds: "I haven't recorded with any other mic since I started using the A440!"
The A440 has a flat frequency response and holds an accurate figure-eight polar pattern down to 20 Hz. The A440 has a smooth and articulate midrange, and at the high end, transients are quick and detailed without hard edges.
Also supplied to the studio by KMR was an AEA R88 Stereo Ribbon Microphone optimised for stereo instrument and ensemble recording and an AEA TRP Ribbon Mic Preamplifier, an ultra high-gain and impedance, minimal-path FET mic pre designed by Fred Forssell.
The R88's two ribbon motors are oriented at 90 degrees, and have excellent off-axis frequency response. The R88 uses the large ribbon configuration of the classic RCA 44 series mics, which gives the mic solid 20Hz bass response and a smooth high end which is flattering to complex tones such as cymbals, strings and woodwinds.
The AEA Ribbon Preamplifier low-noise two-channel preamp is for ribbon, moving coll, and tube microphones that do not use or want phantom power. This allows for improvements in minimal path circuitry and also rids the unit of phantom-power blocking capacitors. Zener diodes on the input protect the input stage if external phantom power is applied.
(KMcA)