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Evaluating the Royer R-122 MKII

Evaluating the Royer R-122 MKII

From the course: Microphone Techniques: Essentials

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Evaluating the Royer R-122 MKII

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- [Narrator] Here's the response Chart from the Royer 122 MkII. This is a newer microphone from Royer and it's an active ribbon microphone. One of the things about old classic ribbon microphones is if you apply phantom power to that ribbon, it'll just blow like a fuse would blow. So a lot of people are very, very nervous applying phantom power to a ribbon microphone. But Royer's designed these active ribbon microphones to compensate for one of the characteristics of a ribbon, ribbons tend to be colder, they're not quite as hot of a microphone as the dynamic mics or the condenser mics for sure. They've added an amplifying circuit that requires power to operate. That along with a couple of other things is what the power is used for. It used to be that you had to have a very, very clean and quiet preamp because the ribbon mic tended to be noisy, but that's not so anymore with the active ribbon microphones. The Phantom powers also used to match impedances which used to be a concern, as…

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