NUDE Microphones

05/09/2026

Who decides whether something is being used “correctly”?
We recently had a thoughtful exchange about this N**E Stereo Ribbon percussion video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjY6kpt1v8EA
A viewer argued that several examples weren’t traditional Blumlein as originally envisaged just convenient 90-degree, two-channel capture yielding a wonderful stereo effect...We understood the technical distinction. Our divergence was philosophical...The N**E Stereo Ribbon contains two coincident figure-8 ribbons at 90 degrees: a true Blumlein array. Not every placement in the video is textbook Blumlein, but that raised a bigger question:

Must a recognised technique remain confined to its originally intended application?...Innovation suggests otherwise. New uses reveal new possibilities, and studio history is full of them...The image shows an NS-10 woofer used in reverse as a low-frequency microphone. Built to reproduce sound, creatively repurposed to capture it...The gated drum sound associated with Hugh Padgham and Phil Collins offers another example. An SSL Listen Mic circuit built for studio communication was accidentally opened while Collins played. Padgham heard something extraordinary, added a noise gate, and the unintended use helped define the sound of an era...The original purpose mattered. Then somebody heard another possibility.
At N**E // We Love Listening //
Definitions help us communicate, teach and reproduce ideas. But they shouldn’t become barriers to creativity; they should be departure points.
If coincident figure-8 ribbons can quickly produce a compelling, phase-coherent stereo image, we see that as a strength—even when the application wanders off-piste.
// Ears remain the great arbiter // 🎧
That doesn’t remove the need for due diligence: check phase, listen for cancellation and test the mono fold-down...But if it works for the recording and moves the listener, perhaps the better question is simply:
Does it sound good?
We’d love to hear your favourite audio-production “hacks.”
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17/08/2026

At N**E, we have a soft spot for old photographs of studios... They capture that meeting point between human curiosity, technology and the desire to listen carefully... and at N**E // WE LOVE LISTENING //
We found this picture on a site that colourises old black-and-white photographs from across different industries...It's the Polish Radio Experimental Studio. Founded in Warsaw in 1957, Studio Eksperymentalne Polskiego Radia became one of Europe’s earliest centres for electronic and electroacoustic music and a rare island of artistic freedom behind the Iron Curtain... At its heart was the pictured 6 × 6-metre “Black Room,” designed so composers and engineers could actively modify the physical architecture of the studio. Its walls featured rotating panels that were reflective on one side and sound-absorbing on the other, allowing the room’s reverberation time to be altered physically.... work was "contsructed:" with oscillators, filters, tape loops and razor-blade edits long before plug-ins, presets or an Undo button... One of the studio’s earliest works was Włodzimierz Kotoński’s Study for One Cymbal Stroke... which began with exactly that: a single recorded cymbal strike, transformed and reassembled into an entire composition.

08/08/2026

🙏for the shout out
“I brought the N**E ribbons on the road because I love the way they sound on overheads. I can crank them in the PA and the cymbals never get harsh, only bigger. That’s why I like my N**ES.”

At N**E // We Love Listening and this includes hearing from N**E owners because it keeps us connected to the coalface of how our microphones are actually being used. We most often see N**E at work in studios so it’s particularly nice to see a pair of N**E Rectangles getting out and about overhead at Red Rock and to hear exactly why they make sense in a live context.

05/08/2026

Posted this before but it popped up on a forum I lurk on ...
Crackin’ pic: The Grateful Dead played in front of the main PA (Wall Of Sound era), which also allowed them to hear themselves REALLY WELL.
That created an obvious challenge. How do you prevent an enormous wall of loudspeakers from flooding every open vocal microphone?
Look Closely // differential microphone arrays - The two signals combined with opposite polarity.I don’t reckon that kind of ground-up systems thinking exists in large-scale live music anymore. It’s not that innovation has stopped in fact the tools have become astonishing. But is festival sound now is a homogenised machine? It definitely delivers consistency and it must.

The truly extraordinary listening experiences now tend to happen where sound can be designed as part of the work itself: theatre, immersive installations and experiential spaces. Places where sound gets time, architecture and a genuine creative investment. 🎧
At N**E, We Love Listening.

24/07/2026

https://www.nudemicrophones.com/products/nude-rectangular-ribbon-microphone
N**E Rectangles are warm, luscious and tame most metallic or sibilant source so we thought we’d share this
There’s a little bit of a groundswell of folks doing one-mic songs
At N**E, we love listening – so absolutely bring it!
Amid all the noise about what humanity still brings to the table, this feels real: people doing extraordinary stuff…Shout out to Dan Slater (Melbourne musician/educator) for a cracker performance/video production w/very cool production workflow insights

21/07/2026

Built like a tank. Sounds full of goodness. 🎙️
The N**E 414 tips its hat to the golden era of condenser microphone design // channelling the character of the classic EB/BULS lineage without the vintage price tag.

Inside: a Class A discrete, transformer-coupled circuit, dual-diaphragm capsule, five selectable polar patterns w/Pad/HPF

Outside: satisfyingly weighty, properly solid and ready for serious studio work.
Expect a big, warm and subtly darker ’80s character, smooth through the top end, but still alive and present. A versatile choice for drums, guitars, amps, percussion, acoustic instruments and grand piano.

★★★★★
“Rather than describe them as warm or deep or clear or full… I’ll just say they sound ‘full of goodness’.”
★★★★★
"Overall I like the N**e 414 better (than our AKG 414 XL II), especially if you gently nudge the top end. There were 3-4 other engineers in the control room, and they were pretty blown away."
★★★★★
"Silky top end is so good for those super high frequency sources and for taming the acoustic string noise without killing any of the sparkle."

Available individually or as matched pairs, supplied in a sturdy flight case with a custom suspension mount.
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12/07/2026

It’s a festival-sized Roland TB-303 … Created by Edinburgh creative technology studio Ray Interactive the Giant 303 is a festival commissioned, fully playable, interactive tribute to Roland’s legendary little silver bass box built at a magnificent 216 times the size of the original. The OG 303 was launched in 1981 to imitate a bass guitarist…and commercially bombed … Then something weird happened … folks pushed it somewhere it was never intended to go and we got acid house
At N**E, we love beautifully engineered audio equipment….We may love enormous, beautifully engineered audio equipment just a little bit more.
You can check it in action here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JYLCR9GZkQ 🤣 🙏

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12/07/2026

It’s a festival-sized Roland TB-303 … Created by Edinburgh creative technology studio Ray Interactive the Giant 303 is a festival commissioned, fully playable, interactive tribute to Roland’s legendary little silver bass box built at a magnificent 216 times the size of the original. The OG 303 was launched in 1981 to imitate a bass guitarist…and commercially bombed … Then something weird happened … folks pushed it somewhere it was never intended to go and we got acid house
At N**E, we love beautifully engineered audio equipment….We may love enormous, beautifully engineered audio equipment just a little bit more.
You can check it in action here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JYLCR9GZkQ 🤣 🙏

**EMicrophones **EInYourStudio

09/07/2026

Big horn energy from the golden age of cinema sound 🎞️🔊
This is the Klangfilm Euronor a German cinema loudspeaker system from the sound-on-film era, when engineers were chasing bigger, clearer, more immersive playback for 35mm cinema. Klangfilm sat inside the Siemens / AEG world, right at the point where film, electro-acoustic engineering and theatres all started getting very serious about sound reinforcement systems.
Crazy-Massive 4m high horn loading….Lab-coat levels of commitment… 🧪 …Honestly … we’re not saying modern audio engineers need to start wearing white lab coats again but we’re also not “NOT” saying it … 👨‍🔬… At N**E, we love the beautiful madness of audio history // big ideas, bespoke engineering to pursue … does it sound extraordinary?

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09/07/2026

Studio dog approved. 🐶🎙️
Matched pairs of N**E Rectangular Ribbons are back in the house.

Warm, full, mellow ribbon tone for the sharp stuff: lap steel, mandolin, banjo, horn sections, percussion and cranking guitar cabs. Built like a tank. Smooth where other mics bite. Grab a matched pair or a single
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