Sontronics’ Mercury Microphone is a variable-pattern valve condenser mouthpiece that ensures your recordings have a spectacular sound. Hand-built in the UK, Mercury uses premium-grade electronic components with uncommon moo resiliences. These, which are seldom utilized in mouthpiece fabricating result in a unique sound with excellent quality. This is produced in an impeccably clean flag and an eminently exact distribution of voices and instruments.
The Mercury Microphone is a classic in the making.
Mercury Microphone’s control supply highlights both cushion and channel switches. It also has a completely sweepable polar design control that gives a boundless choice of pickups. It ranges from Omni to figure-of-eight and many layers in between. In addition to all of this, its unique mooing sound makes the Mercury a must have for any person who seeks a great sound. Its components ensure it achieves the exceptionally high quality sound desired by professionals.
Mercury sets itself separated from all other valve mics much appreciated for its cutting-edge innovation, as its architect and Sontronics’ originator Trevor Coley explains… “During Mercury’s improvement, we needed to thrust boundaries and so tested with super-low-tolerance components more commonly found in aviation and therapeutic businesses. We too difficultly tried nearly a hundred vacuum tubes in our explore for ‘that Mercury sound’, landing on the European ECC81/12AT7.
Launched in 2019, the Mercury Vintage Version may be an uncommon adaptation of Mercury that has been fitted with a Mullard M8162 vacuum tube.This valve, ensured to be pre-1970, gives Mercury an unmistakable vintage sound, giving indeed hotter lows in conjunction with an indeed silkier top-end reaction. The longer it’s utilized, the superior it sounds.
The advancement of Mercury was really groundbreaking, and the comes about talk for themselves. Its amazingly precise generation combined with a classic valve sound have brought about in Mercury being compared to vintage valve mics that fetched over ten times the cost, and Mercury being alluded to as a classic of the future.
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