Aim Audio ESSENCE
Product information "Aim Audio ESSENCE"
Made in Berlin, Germany, the ESSENCE is a new high-performance studio microphone and a world first. It offers a range of unique, useful and innovative features, including our patented switchable transformer/electronic output stage. From a direct, wonderfully open and fast response to gentle, intimate tones with sparkling overtones and deep bass, the ESSENCE will certainly become a top choice everywhere and for any source.
Added to this are a fresh design, backlit and tactile controls, reversible orientation, integrated peak-level metering and a handmade 1"-gold-sputtered-Mylar True Condenser capsule (externally polarized) — resulting in one of the best audio products ever released, with a price/performance ratio that breaks common conventions.
Main features:
- Studio condenser microphone with cardioid polar pattern
- All-metal body with unique oval design
- Leading audio performance (>140 dBA internal headroom)
- Switchable between electronic or transformer-balanced output
- Specially wound toroidal audio transformer with VITROPERM core
- 1" large-diaphragm True Condenser (gold-sputtered Mylar)
- -10 dB pad and 80 Hz low-cut
- Integrated peak-level metering
- Backlit controls (dimmable and lockable)
- Operates on standard 48 V phantom power
- Made in Berlin, Germany
Technical specifications:
- Transducer type: True Condenser
- Frequency response: 20 Hz – 20 kHz
- Sensitivity at 1 kHz / 1 kΩ: 24.1 mV/Pa (ref. 94 dB SPL)
- Signal-to-noise ratio: 86 dBA (ref. 94 dB SPL)
- Polar pattern: Cardioid
- Equivalent noise level: 8 dBA
- Max. SPL: 140 dB (at 0.05% THD, without pad)
- Pad switch: -10 dB
- Low-cut filter: 80 Hz
- Connection Plug: 3-pin XLR
- Frequency range: 20 Hz - 20 kHz
- Low-Cut-Filter: 80 Hz
- Pickup pattern: Cardioid
- Pre-Attenuation: -20 dB/-10 dB/0 dB Switchable
- Subcategory: Vocal / Instrument
- Transducer principle: Condenser
- Type: Large Diaphragm Microphone
- diaphragm: Large-diaphragm
- max. SPL: 140 dB
