The Warm Audio WA-FT Fen-tone is inspired by a classic 50s ribbon microphone built with upgraded, modern components to deliver iconic tones. Like the original B&O design, the Warm Audio Fen-tone recreates the compact, pencil-style design with ventilated sides that can easily be placed in crowded recording environments. Unlike the original, Fen-tone features modern upgrades including a custom Japanese ribbon, rare-earth Neodymium magnet, and CineMag USA transformer to deliver the iconic ribbon tones made popular in contemporary music on electric guitars, overheads, horns, and many more sources. Fen-tone adds an all-analog 26 dB JFET in-line preamp, allowing for active use - a critical feature for using ribbons directly with underpowered interface preamps.
PERFECT FOR INSTRUMENT RECORDING
The Warm Audio Fen-tone delivers rich detail at high SPLs making it the go-to mic for a variety of instruments sources. Fen-tone really shines guitar cabs, horns, drum overheads, pianos, and more. The upgraded components in Fen-tone deliver intricate midrange detail that helps guitars shine in dense mixes. In addition to custom, premium components, Fen-tone includes an in-line Warm Lifter preamp to add 26 dB of clean, analog gain to setups with inferior or underpowered preamps.
FIGURE-8 POLAR PATTERN
The figure-8 (or bidirectional) polar pattern of the Fen-tone means that the microphone will only pick up what is directly in front of it and behind it. Because ribbons only accept sounds from either side of the ribbon, the spaces above, below, and on either side are effectively dead zones where no sound is captured. This makes ribbon microphone uniquely suited for recording two acoustic instrumentalists facing each other, playing into either side of the mic without picking up additional bleed.
TIGHT LOWS, RICH MIDS, NO HARSH HIGHS
Fen-tone captures powerful bass and rich midrange, true to the sound profile of the most sought-after small-format ribbon microphone. In addition to the bass and midrange emphasis, Fen-tone shows off its warm “forgiving” tone by taming top-end harshness above 15 kHz for smooth presence without exaggerated sibilance or harshness.
FEATURES:
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Recreation of classic 50s ribbon microphone design using modern components and feature upgrades
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Bi-directional (figure-8) polar pattern effectively eliminates side-address noise
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Captures sound with which detail at high SPLs making it ideal for many instruments, especially guitar cabs, horns, drum overheads, pianos, and more
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Delivers tight lows, powerful mids with no harsh highs
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Onboard 26 dB in-line discrete 5k Ohm high-impedance JFET Warm Lifter circuitry gives you the ability to plug directly into audio interfaces or inferior preamps without volume, tone, and frequency loss
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Carefully inspected at Warm Audio Headquarters in Austin, Texas by trained engineers and musicians with a passion for helping you sound your best