Violet Flamingo Cardioid Condenser Mics

Violet Flamingo microphones use "The Magic Ear" capsule in "Flamingo ME" and standard 1" capsule in the Flamingo. All Violet's large size true electrostatic capsules use highest quality Mylar film diaphragms, sputtered with Violet's special formula of gold mixture, and tensioned on precisely made brass back-plate. Diaphragm special coating provides faster transient impulse response, minimum sound coloration, better low frequency response, and lets capsule to handle louder sound pressure levels. Each capsule is carefully checked for all parameters and measured in an anechoic chamber for optimum of performance.

Microphones can have different polar patterns depending from capsule type and polarisation connection. The microphones large head grille is made as acoustic filter of multi-layer brass mesh that reduces plosive sounds, breath, pop and wind noise, minimises internal resonance, and keeps high frequencies and sound transparency unaffected.

The internal vacuum tube pre-amplifier is based on class-A fully discrete electronics, built using the best quality components and carefully selected and tested 6267 vacuum tube. All circuits are designed under the highest audio standards and provide linear audio frequency range, very high dynamics, low self-noise, and very low audio distortion of all types. We use custom wound large size balanced audio transformer at the output to provide maximum of symmetry and separation of the output signal.

The Violet Flamingo microphone comes with sequential, soft starting power supply unit. At first step after switching on it provides stabilised DC voltage with limited current for tube heater's protection. Only after heating of cathode the stabilised plate and polarisation voltages begin to raise from zero until full nominal of application voltages. The audio output of the microphone is muted until end of above sequential starting process. Sequence is under changing LED indicator control, but digital display shows actual plate voltage.

Rugged microphone construction with multilevel internal shock-mounts - separate for the capsule, head, electronics board and tube itself effectively reduce tube microphonic's, stand rumble, outside infrasonic interference and mechanical shocks. The Flamingo comes with compact external shockmount for maximum of performance.

Special highest quality multi wire audio/powering cable is included for microphone to power supply unit connection. We recommend to use Violet's audiophile quality microphone cable for further connection from power supply unit output to preamplifier or mixing console input. That cable will minimize external noise, signal loss and maximize contact quality and is available as option.

Flamingo microphones are available in matched stereo pairs to provide balanced stereo recordings. They can be ordered individually under custom configuration including individual artwork on the microphone body.

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