There are a number of performance videos where artists such as The Devil Makes Three, The Milk Carton Kids, and Haim are using Ear Trumpet Labs microphones. They use these mics not only because of their professional-quality electronics and sound, but because they are just absolutely beautiful to look at. Ear Trumpet Labs uses common hardware, everyday objects, and found things to create their hand made microphones. Today they introduces Mabel, their first multi-pattern studio microphone.
From Ear Trumpet Labs:
Mabel is a hand-built multi-pattern condenser microphone utilizing two cardioid medium-large diaphragm (26mm) capsules, designed primarily for capturing demanding sources like acoustic instruments, drum overheads, and vocals. Mabel features a unique copper-ringed head basket with brass grill work, held in a pivoting mount within a stainless-steel yoke, and a copper-and-brass body. The design is both visually stunning and extremely practical, as the pivoting head makes for easy positioning adjustments.
The capsules are a pair of fixed-cardioid electret condensers, individually tested and selected to match each other and strict design criteria. The circuit is a transformerless FET with fully balanced output, incorporating thorough EMI protection. Other electrical components in the signal path are of the highest quality: metal film resistors, polypropylene and polystyrene capacitors, and individually tested, hand-matched and biased transistors and JFETs. Internal Sorbothane shock and vibration damping helps to minimize vibration noise. The dual-cardioid-capsule design is an uncommon approach to a multi-pattern mic. It has advantages in an especially deep null at the sides of the figure 8 pattern and greater control over the directional frequency response across all the patterns. The circuit includes high frequency EQ tuned to the capsules, providing a very smooth high end.
For more information, please visit www.eartrumpetlabs.com
