Description

SE Electronics Rupert Neve RNTPremium Large Diaphragm Condenser Tube Microphone

After more than ten years of joint development work, the cooperation between sE Electronics and Rupert Neve Designs is once again bearing great fruit: with the RNT, the two development teams present a tube microphone that is second to none. With its exceptional technical specifications and incredible sound, the RNT marks a new milestone in the history of

microphone technology.

It combines a high-voltage tube circuit in the microphone with two custom transformers from Rupert Neve’s pen, a discrete Class A amplifier that uses the same custom operational amplifiers as Rupert Neve’s flagship 5088 console and a specially tuned, hand-made microphone capsule from sE. The combination of these components ensures, among other things, an extremely high headroom of 151dB and a very wide frequency response up to 100kHz.

Due to this enormous headroom, the microphone does not require a pad. Nevertheless, the amplifier module was equipped with three gain settings (-12dB, 0dB flat and +12dB). The frequency response of the amplifier ranges from <1Hz to 100kHz in the +/-2dB range and is completely flat from 1Hz to 30kHz. Thanks to the +/-36VDC technology, the circuit does not produce any clipping even when the capsule is supplied with maximum voltage.

In addition, the amplifier unit has a LoCut filter that can be activated at 40Hz or 80Hz and a nine-position switch that can switch the 9 directional characteristics from omnidirectional to cardioid to figure-of-eight, each with a few intermediate steps.

• Large diaphragm condenser tube microphone
• Polar patterns: Cardioid, omnidirectional, figure-of-eight (plus 6 intermediate stages)
• Rupert Neve custom transformer and operational amplifier
• 100% discrete circuit
• Portable external power supply unit
• +/-36VDC technology
• Frequency response: <1Hz - 100kHz (at +/-2dB), flat at 1Hz - 30kHz
• LoCut: 40Hz, 80Hz (12dB/oct.)
• Gain settings: -12dB, 0dB, +12dB
• Self-noise: 18dB(A)
• Max. SPL: 151dB SPL
• Dynamic range: 133dB
• Dimensions (microphone): Diameter: 6.2cm, Length: 24 mm
• Weight (microphone): 989g
• Dimensions (floor box): 35.6 x 13.5 x 10cm
• Weight (floor box): 3.905kg