Microphones / Miking

This classy, handmade valve mic offers a wide range of tonal options.

Alder Audio’s debut ribbon mic is at once innovative, classy and highly affordable.

Tired of running back and forth between the control room and live room? Meet your new robotic assistant...

Tascam’s new stage mic offers remarkable bang for your buck!

Beyerdynamic’s new studio mics are as classy as they are versatile.

AKG’s new multi‑pattern USB microphone proves its worth on both instruments and vocals.

Austrian Audio turn their attention from studio to stage, with an intriguing new vocal mic aimed at live performance.

Lewitt’s new flagship hybrid microphone could be the last vocal mic you ever need...

Swedish mic manufacturers Pearl and Milab have been doing things differently for 80 years — with outstanding results.

Earthworks continue their mission to bring small‑diaphragm capacitor mics to new markets.

Can a solid‑state microphone really give you the sound of an AKG C12?

What would you record with an indestructible microphone?

Mojave’s new valve mic pays tribute to a neglected classic.

Audix are renowned for their dynamic mics, but their latest model is a high‑end electret design intended to compete with some of the best instrument mics in the world.

Austrian Audio deliver a 21st Century take on a famous ‘pencil’ mic design.

In perhaps their most ambitious project yet, Warm Audio’s latest microphone tackles the legendary Sony C‑800G.

3D‑printing has made it practical for designers to manufacture all manner of specialised microphone mounting brackets at relatively low cost.

MXL’s Mini FET mic is as versatile as it is affordable.

Can a solid‑state microphone really give you the sound of Sony’s classic valve C800G?

Warm Audio’s latest mic takes on the venerable Neumann U67. We put it to the test!

Sennheiser’s latest stage mic puts one of the company’s premium wireless capsules into a conventional wired mic format. We put it to the test.