SONTRONICS HELIOS VALVE MICROPHONE
Sontronics Helios: With a complete low-end response and a smooth, beautifully detailed high-end presence, the HELIOS is designed to give perfectly accurate results but with the inherent warmth of valve circuitry, thanks to its vacuum tube.
Using a sensitive 1.07-inch capsule isolated by a latex mount within the large grille, the HELIOS ensures total precision in your recording. Its design allows you to transparently position your subject within a mix without having to resort to heaps of EQ and dynamics processing to do the job for you.
The HELIOS comes with its own SPS-1 power supply, which has a variable pattern control, allowing a smooth transition from omni to figure-of-eight and anything in between. Click here for our SPS power supply operation instructions.
The HELIOS is simply one of the most flexible microphones avialable in any class.
SONTRONICS HELIOS VALVE MICROPHONE FEATURES
- Response: 20Hz - 20kHz
- Sensitivity: 20mV/Pa -32dB ±2dB (0dB = 1V/Pa 1,000Hz)
- Polar pattern: Variable, from omni to figure-of-eight
- Impedance: ≤200 Ohms
- Equivalent noise level: 18dB (A-weighted)
- Max SPL (for 0.5% THD @ 1,000Hz): 125dB
- Power source: SPS-1 115/230V power supply only
- Connectors: Microphone = eight-pin connector;
- Power supply = three-pin XLR
“The HELIOS has an edge over modern and classic
mics because of its incredible definition and presence.
I love the way it translates a singer’s emotion even in
the midst of a raging guitar track.”
Alain Johannes, Engineer/Producer
(Queens of the Stone Age, Eleven, Chris Cornell)
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