Warm Audio’s WA-8000: An Alternative to Sony’s C-800G Microphone
The WA-8000 is a large diapharm tube condenser microphone based on Sony’s C800G, a mic that helped model the sound of hip-hop!
Warm Audio presents its new mic: the WA-8000 tube condenser microphone.
The WA-8000 captures sound with an open high-end and clear midrange, which is perfect for the vocalists among us. I’m looking at you.
“Every detail of acoustic sources” is vulnerable to the recording power of this mic, according to Warm Audio. Looking for that pristine sound of high fidelity hip-hop recordings of the 90s? Well, look no further. Hip-hop legends and crowned RnB kings and queens such as Sting, Dr Dre, Mariah Carey, and Snoop DoggSony’s have all made killer tracks with the legendary C-800G microphone.
The brand boasts that the WA-8000 hits “all of the critical specifications of the original, giving you the true sound of modern R&B and Hip-hop for an unprecedented value.”
Warm Audio used the custom transformer that is the 6AU6 tube from Lundahl. The team also used this transformer for their WA-67, which is a modern replica of the Neumann U67 microphone. The standard vocal booth microphone for high profile recording studios.
After extensive testing, the team found that the NOS 6AU6 tube is capable of capturing the sonic clarity that the team were looking for. Warm Audio built this “studio workhorse” microphone with the NOS 6AU6 tube. If the microphone is capable of what Warm Audio is claiming, who knows what else they tested?
The new microphone presents with pride its frequency response of 20Hz to 20kHz, as well as a max SPL of 134dB when in omnidirectional mode!
With an output impedance at 100 ohms, as well as a Signal-to-Noise ratio that reaches a maximum of 76dB – you can say goodbye, or at least a chipper farewell, to that pesky noise floor.
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