Rivera Venus 5 Guitar Combo Amplifier, from Rivera

Rivera Amps showed several new products at Winter NAMM 2010. Rivera which is already known for having a fantastic line of new and vintage style all tube guitar amps has released 2 new amps to the line. The Clubster Royal which is a more wallet friendly offering based off the Chubster 40; and the Venus 5 which will be the highest gain of the Venus line . There is also an innovative new iso-guitar cabinet, the Silent Sister, built with the recording guitarist in mind that was shown at NAMM. These fantastic amps are all available for purchase through Sound Pure, who is always available to answer any questions you have about guitars, tone, and the recording process. Call Sound Pure toll free 888-528-9703, or e-mail them at sales(at)soundpure.com

The Rivera Venus 5 Tube Amplifier is one of the newest offerings from Rivera Amps. This Class A 50watt offering is a truly versatile package that sits comfortably between the popular Venus 3 and Venus 6 Amplifiers. This channel switching, 6L6 powered 1x12 Combo performs brilliantly, with a wide tonal range coming through the Celestion twelve inch speaker. The amp has plenty of clean headroom as well as harmonically rich overdrive with boost, and Class A touch sensitivity. The included footswitch makes switching channels a breeze and also controls the lush accutronics reverb. There is plenty of volume for live applications and it will record clearly at low volume with help from the vintage/modern switch that takes your wattage from 50 to 15. This amp also features an active effects loop with send and return level controls, extension speaker output, and many other easily accessible back panel functions. With classic styling and solid construction, the Venus 5 amplifier from Rivera Amps truly is boutique within reach. If you have any questions about this amp or any Rivera amps, please call toll free 888.528.9703 or email Sound Pure today.

The Charter Oak s700 Microphone is a well-known broadcast microphone, which is why it's suprising and impressive to hear it perform very wonderfully as a microphone that records electric guitar cabinets and bass. The big and rich bottom end of this microphone translates to warm guitar tones, but at the same time it has a smooth and crisp top end that doesn't sacrifice a great deal of detail. At its low price, this is a great microphone to have in the studio for a wide variety of applications. For Bass SVT rigs, it's quickly becoming one of our favorite microphone choices, but is also does a nice job of reproducing well-balanced guitar tones, in particular, it's impressive at capture a lot of great low-end resonance, and top-end edge, but doesn't give you the typical muddy midrange and washed-out sounds you'd expect from a voice-over microphone. Definitely a nice microphone to have in the mic locker. If you want to discuss any of the Charter Oak Microphone line, or recording electric guitars or Bass, we are here and eager to help, and can be reached anytime worldwide at +1 919.682.5552.

The Charter Oak m900t is a vintage-style small-diaphragm tube pencil microphone that has a warm, thick midrange, and very tame and subdued top end. However, as a small diaphragm mic, this Charter Oak microphone is an excellent choice where you want to retain detail in a non-harsh way. Even when put through our clean preamp, the Millennia HV3, there was no real harshness that you'd typically expect from a small diaphragm mic. It possesses a warm vintage tonailty, but doesn't lack on detail, which makes it an interesting and great choice here for electric guitars. It is particularly impressive in the way that it can capture clean tones, and loads of reverb detail, but at the same time, doesn't suffer when the amp gets dialed up to some more aggressive distorted electric guitar tones. It's a real workhorse, as it performs wonderfully well on lots of applications from finger-style acoustic guitar, to drum overheads, grand piano, and even here on electric guitars. If you'd like to discuss the microphone, please don't hesitate to give one of our recording experts here a call anytime, toll free at 888.528.9703, or international, +1 919.682.5552.

The Millennia HV3 is known as a world class microphone preamplifier. The same great circuit design is used in a variety of Millennia preamps including the HV-3d (4 and 8 channell versions), the HV3c, the HV3r Remote Controllable Mic Preamp with optional A/D conversion card, the Millennia STT1 Origin Channel Strip, and the TD-1 DI and Mic Pre. While Millennia Mic Preamps are definitive in the classical and jazz worlds, it is truly outstanding in all serious recording studio applications, where the sound company out of the microphone is just right, as-is. Visit our blog on the Millennia products, and be sure and check out our numerous other videos on the individual products in the line. Contact us with any questions, or to pick your next great mic preamp up- we can be reached toll free 888-528-9703.