About This Listing

The VR1 & VR2 are your new "secret weapon" ribbons. 

The VR2, an active ribbon that can take violins and voices right to the foreground of your listener's stereo. 

The VR ribbon microphones from sE mark a new era for ribbon mic technology. 

Until the VR Series, the only ribbon mic in the world to perform across 20Hz-20kHz was our own Rupert Neve collaboration, the RNR1. This was achieved using state-of-the-art custom transformers and a Rupert Neve-designed circuit to reveal HF usually absent. 

With the VR mics, the full frequency the response is achieved using a clever mechanical device designed by Siwei Zou, the company CEO, and a hand-tensioned ribbon constructed by our highly specialized technicians in sE's capsule room. 

The result is a superbly detailed, open and natural recording of acoustic instruments and guitar cabs. The VR1 & VR2's ability to perform - coupled with their unique look - have already made them a secret weapon for top musicians and engineers worldwide. 

USED BY:

  • Queens of the Stone Age.
  • Billy Gibbons.
  • August Greene.
  • My Morning Jacket.
  • Pete Thorn.
  • Steve Stevens.
  • John Browne.
  • Neil Cappellino.
  • Linkin Park.
  • Band of Horses.
  • Taking Back Sunday.
  • Paramore.
  • Black Sabbath.
  • David Hodges.  

Specifications: 

VR2 (active)

  • Electronics: Active.
  • Generating Element: Hand-tensioned 2.5µm aluminum ribbon.
  • Directional Pattern: Figure-8.
  • Frequency range: 20 Hz - 18 kHz.
  • Impedance: 200 Ohms.
  • Sensitivity: 10 mV/Pa (-40 dB).
  • Max SPL: 135 dB (0.5% THD @ 1kHz).
  • Signal to Noise Ratio: 76 dB.
  • Self Noise: 18 dB(A).
  • Matching Connectors: XLR3F.
  • Power requirement: 48V Phantom.
  • Weight: 400g / 14.11oz.

Condition
Brand
Model
  • Voodoo VR2 Active Ribbon Microphone
Finish
  • See Description
Categories
Year
  • 2020
Electronics
  • Passive
  • Analog
Polar Pattern
  • Bidirectional
Wired/Wireless
  • Wired
Microphone Type
  • Ribbon

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The Gator Tone

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Product Overview
The sE Electronics Voodoo VR2 active ribbon microphone takes (almost) everything you know about ribbon microphones and tosses it into the rubbish. Ribbons are traditionally limited in bandwidth, low in output, and quite expensive...but the Voodoo VR2 uses a proprietary ribbon motor, active electronics and modern manufacturing techniques to make all of that ancient history. Record quiet string passages with incredible detail and hot levels, and get all the breath and nuance out of a female vocalist with the lulling tone of a ribbon. The Voodoo VR2 is worth a serious look for any studio -- project or professional.
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