After years of designing and manufacturing microphones in Los Angeles, David Royer teamed up with Rick Perrotta, former President and co-founder of the prestigious Matchless Guitar Amplifier Company, and together with studio owner Rafael Villafane and musician/marketing director John Jennings, formed Royer Labs, a California based company dedicated to the development and production of high quality ribbon microphones and transducer elements.
In this installment of our drum overhead shootout series, we put 4 of our favorite ribbon mics head-to-head: the Royer R121, the Shure KSM 313, the Coles 4038, and the AEA R84. All microphones were run through our Phoenix DRS8 mic pre, and into the first...
In our latest demo video, we decided to test out 2 phenomenal ribbon microphones on electric guitar: the Mesanovic Model 2, and the Royer Labs R-121. We’ve had the Model 2 for a few weeks here in our studio, and we wanted to compare it with a classic that most...
We dove into the differences between two ribbon mics in this Royer shootout. The Royer R-121 and the newer Royer R-101 were put head to head on electric guitar with the help of guitarist Scott Sawyer. The mics chosen for this shootout are mics that have come...
We put 4 of our most commonly used ribbon microphones head to head on recording electric guitar in this shootout. The contenders include: The Shure KSM313, the Royer R-121, the Coles 4038, and the AEA R84. The four ribbon mics chosen for this shootout are mics that...