Recording Magazine Reviews KEL HM-7U and HM-3C
Recording Magazine has run the KEL HM-7U and HM-3C condenser microphones through their paces for their May edition. They both come through with flying colors! 
Paul Vnuk sums it up nicely:
As with the Song Sparrow, these two KEL mics impress me. Their sound is unique, their build is solid, and their prices are shocking.
Click here to read the review in its entirety. Contact us to demo the mics or to purchase! You won’t be disappointed.
KEL Audio Song Sparrow Review
The current issue of Recording Magazine is singing the praises of the Song Sparrow from KEL Audio with a great review!
These are well-built and unique sounding microphones that truly deserve a cult following of the highest magnitude!
-Paul Vnuk Jr, Recording Magazine
Click on the image to read the review in it’s entirety. And… if you want to find out first hand why the Song Sparrow got such a great review, contact us and we’ll work with you to to set up a demo. This is a great mic to have in your arsenal for vocals, acoustic instruments, drum overheads, you name it! Like all KEL Audio microphones, the Song Sparrow is made with top notch components (dual FET, WIMA film capacitors) and ships with a shockmount and flight case.
ADAM A7X Wins Best Studio Monitors- Again!
Congratulations ADAM Audio!
The readers of SOUND ON SOUND, one of the world’s premier music recording technology magazines, have voted for the best products in 2011. The annual SOS Awards are amongst the most prestigious awards in the industry.For the the second year in a row, the ADAM A7X has been voted Best Studio Monitor. So, really, congratulations again!
This is further proof the A7Xs are fast becoming the standard for accurate studio monitoring. Here’s one of the many reasons why:
The X-ART Principle: moving the air in a 4:1 ratio
The X-ART Tweeter
ADAM has been well known for their Accelerating Ribbon Tweeter(ART). They have now improved upon this technology even further with the release of the X-ART tweeter (eXtended).
The X-ART membrane consists of a pleated diaphragm in which the folds compress or expand according to the audio signal applied to them. The result is that air is drawn in and squeezed out, like the bellows of an accordion.
This makes the tweeter much more efficient than standard technology, which results in incredible accuracy of playback all the way to 50kHz and stereo imaging like no other monitor available.
See for yourself- more area= more dynamic
ADAM diaphragm comparison to a 1" dome tweeter
“The famous ART tweeter as used in ADAM’s monitors has also undergone reconstruction in the X model providing 4dB higher efficiency and reproducing frequencies accurately all the way to 50kHz, which has made such a difference. The ART tweeter from ADAM has always been one of its strong points, but this new X-ART tweeter is a perfect balance in what is an excellent piece of craftsmanship. ”
(Audio Media, 09/2009)
And now HEAR for yourself- contact us to schedule a demo of these excellent monitors. Hearing is believing!
KEL Audio HM-7U Condenser Microphone
KEL Audio’s Flagship HM-7U Small Cardioid Condenser Microphone
Tired of the glut of thin, bright sounding inexpensive condenser microphones being offered? There’s actually a mic, a full line of mics, in fact, that brings you high end mic performance at an everyday price. And they don’t do it by using cheap components- they do it by simplifying the design so they can use excellent components.
Case in point- the HM-7U small supercardioid condenser microphone. This microphone boasts class ‘A’, dual transformerless FET circuit, a K47-syle capsule and WIMA film capacitors, resulting in a super clean, warm, open sounding signal. Add to that a low cut filter, -6dB pad, and a “phantom power present” indicator, and you have a mic should be in everyone’s arsenal.
Want to check it out for yourself? Contact us- we’ll make it happen!
Here are some other KEL users to give you their take on the HM-7U:
“The last decade has seen the number of cheap, brittle sounding condenser microphones skyrocket. Most of these are aimed at the home studio market and only succeed in looking like the large diaphragm condensers and tube microphones of the past. The KEL HM-7U large diaphragm condenser microphone is an exception. It offers a full 20Hz – 20kHz frequency response and a “super cardioid” polar pattern at an incredibly reasonable price. Aside from exceptional warmth and clarity, the HM-7U delivers a 6db pad, useful for tracking louder sounds, and a low frequency roll-off filter to help tame unwanted rumble from creeping into your recordings. The HM-7U comes with swivel mount, shock mount and flight case.”
“I took a pair of U87′s as room mics down while tracking drums and put up a pair of 7U’s and the drums and room became transparent. Everyone in the control room went WOW!!!!!”
—Bil VornDick, Multiple award-winning engineer and producer, Nashville Recording Legend
“…the HM-7U is the perfect example of high end quality at an affordable price…”
Cool Room Mode Calculator!
Here’s another find from our friends at Haverstick Designs- a very cool room mode calculator that let’s you “see” the effects in your studio of everything from your room’s dimensions, your listening position placement and subwoofer placement on the intensity of room modes.
The Amroc Room Mode Calculator:
Graph of the "Bolt-Area" showing cumulative good room ratios.
“You can explore “known rooms” which are popular room ratios or you can add
your own room to see how it fares. All dimensions are entered in
centimeters, so you can type in a Google search for example “12 ft to cm”
and it will display the conversion for you.Click around and explore the various tabs. There are notes for each tab that
gives you a description of what it should be used for. The “floor” tab is
probably the most interesting of them all.For the “floor” tab, you can set the height of the subwoofer and listening
position on the right side of the graph by using the sliders. Notice how
this changes the intensity of the various modes at the bottom. Next, you can
click on a specific mode at the bottom and see the distribution of this mode
on the graph. Then, you can drag the red dot in the upper left hand corner
of the graph to where the listening position would be located in the room -
allowing you to see in real-time, how the placement of the listening
position affects the intensity of the various modes.”-Haverstick Designs
Have fun! Let us know what you discover about your room! Send us a screenshot and we’ll give you our two cents.
