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Royer Labs SF-24L Description
The Royer
Live Series ribbon microphones give you twice the durability in the ribbon
element, allowing you to put ribbons anywhere on stage you'd like with complete
confidence.
Remember
when
- A
loud guitar amp was no place for a ribbon mic?
- A kick drum was no place for a ribbon mic?
- A live stage was no place for a ribbon mic?
Royers are
known around the world for what they bring to studio recordings. Now you can
get Royer performance on the live stage!
Our studio
ribbons have been on the road with major acts for years:
- Aerosmith
(guitars)
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The Goo Goo Dolls (guitars)
-
Keith Urban (guitars & drums)
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The Rolling Stones (drum overhead for recording)
-
Harry Conick Jr. (brass section)
-
Arturo Sandoval (trumpet)
-
Wayne Shorter (sax & drums)
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Herbie Hancock (piano & drums)
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George Thoroughgood (guitar),
-
Barry Manilow (brass section), to name just a few.
Royers 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 our Live Series ribbon microphones you get twice the durability
in the ribbon element, allowing you to put ribbons 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.
How
After extensive testing, we found new ribbon thicknesses for the R-121, R-122
and SF-24 microphones 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.
Our Live
Series microphones are identified with a red Royer logo (studio models have
green or black logos). Live Series mics can be converted to Studio mics with a
simple re-ribbon and logo replacement. There is no cost difference between our
standard Studio mics and Live Series mics
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. Heres how Royers handle the problem.
Rejection
Royer 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: Aerosmith used R-121s in the studio to record the electric guitars on
their 2002 CD Just Push Play, but didnt 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-121s
and, after we assured them wed replace the ribbons if they were damaged
onstage, the band set up R-121s on Joe Perry and Brad Whitfords guitars. The
mics eliminated the bleed problem so effectively (and sounded so good) that
R-121s have been Aerosmiths live (and studio) electric guitar mics from that
day forward. In over five years of extensive use, theyve 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 mics!
Off-Axis
Coloration
Theres a lot of sound on a live stage and you cant 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 dont color off-axis information, so any bleed that
manages to get into your onstage Royers will sound natural, not harsh or
colored.
Royer Labs SF-24L Live Series Ribbon
Recommended Applications
- Miking Live
Electric Guitar
- Miking Live
Drums
- Miking Live
Brass
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