Samar Audio Design VL373A Active Stereo Ribbon Microphone

The Samar Audio Design VL373A is entirely handcrafted and meticulously assembled using parts made exclusively in house in their US shop. It has a Stainless Steel body and comes in a US made wooden box and anti-vibration shockproof clip.

The VL373A's high SPL handling, built in pop filter and symmetrical polar response is perfect for demanding producers, musicians and engineers in recording studios and for live sound reproduction.

Whether it is Blumlein, MS, or XY, the VL373 is ideal for stereo recording of wide spectrum of sources, from orchestra, choir, piano, vocals, violin, brass instruments, to acoustic and electric guitar, drum overheads, room microphones, among other recording, broadcast, and classical music applications.

FEATURES:

• One-of-a-kind highly innovative design incorporating the positioning of motors as physically close to each other as possible for very low phase distortions and ‘true to life’ stereo image
• Unique swivel mechanism to allow to adjust stereo spread
• Extremely low noise (active VL373A has 4-5 dB lower noise than already very quiet VL373)
• Balanced ruler flat frequency response down to 20 Hz (-0.43 dB) and unprecedented top end beyond 25 kHz
• Low noise, low distortion, made in-house amorphous core toroidal transformers
• Sophisticated motor with shortest front-to-back path ever seen in ribbon microphones
• Low-mass ribbon with a unique fine tuning adjustment to assure for consistency from unit to unit
• Proprietary corrugation process to maintain ribbon’s integrity without special handling