One of the two Townsend plug-ins will take what appears to be a stereo recording down to a mono track, which gives us the ability to work with our tracks in a mix the same way we do when working with tracks recorded with traditional single channel mics. The Sphere microphone is a dual channel system with two diaphragms where two feeds from the mics are recorded via its supplied breakout cable to stereo tracks in a DAW.
Townsend Labs Sphere L22 is a complete end-to-end microphone modelling system that a couple of us on the Production Expert Team own and regularly use in our audio production work. Below are two systems which use more than one diaphragm in their calibrated microphones. Multi-diaphragm microphones have more than one diaphragm, which enables their supporting software to deliver users not only faithful sounding recreations of top vintage microphones but also an array of settings to whet the appetite of any microphone aficionado. In this article we take a whistle stop tour of all the top microphone modelling systems available today.
It seemed we were waiting for ages for a good system to hit the market and, like waiting for a bus, several forward thinking solutions turned up in quick succession. After all, microphones are one of the most important tools in our toolboxes.Īll of this changed when we started to see hardware with software solutions start to appear which had a known reference microphone from which to start.Īs a result, over the last few years there has been quite a buzz around microphone modelling. As a result microphone modelling got a bit of a bad name. Why? Because the first ones were software only solutions and produced variable results depending on what the original microphone was. Over the years there have been some attempts at producing realistic sounding mic modelling solutions but this concept never really took off in the culture of audio production.
There’s countless plug-in versions of outboard gear, guitar amps, stomp boxes, consoles, preamps, tape and of course microphones, which, up until fairly recently, were considered a bit of a holy grail in the analogue modelling world. There’s no denying that we are utterly spoilt for choice when it comes to analogue emulations. Whether you like it or not analogue modelling plays a significant role in today’s recording world.
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