Brauner VM1 Klaus Hyne Limited Edition Mic Now Shipping
 December 3, 2001
Microphone designer and manufacturer Dirk Brauner has teamed up with microphone modifier Klaus Heyne to build a new large diaphragm, tube, transformer coupled microphone. The Brauner VM1 Klaus Heyne Edition builds upon the VM1 with insights and expertise collected over decades of Heyne's hands-on work restoring and improving the "classics". Working out of German Masterworks, Heyne is the person that A&M, Record Plant, LucasFilm, and Disney call upon to make their good microphones great and their great microphones "magical".
Heyne's attention to detail and Brauner's rare, "spare-no-expense" philosophy couple to deliver unprecedented excellence. The Brauner/Heyne team shortened electrical pathways, hand selected components for the production models, and paid every attention to acoustical construction, from judicious tuning of the capsule to careful shaping of the grill. They mitigated phase shift by relying on acoustics, not electronics, to render a natural sound.
Like all Brauner microphones, the VM1 Klaus Heyne Edition is completely handmade in Germany. The VM1KHEs are then shipped to the USA for final pair matching and tweaking at German Masterworks in Oregon. There the microphones are examined audibly and tested by Klaus Heyne himself, tuned and adjusted for a specific customer's needs. Transamerica reports there is now a six-month waiting list for these microphones.
Transamerica Audio Group has shipped the first seven Klaus Heyne Edition mics. Three to Steve Kempster, Hollywood scoring engineer, for the score of the upcoming movie, "American Outlaw", two are being used by Mark Conese at Ambient Recording, Stamford, Connecticut for a new jazz quartet SACD recording, and one to Madison, Wisconsin's Smart Studios and famed engineer Butch Vig for use with an existing Brauner VM1 on Shirley Manson and Garbage's next CD.
For more information, visit their web site at www.braunerusa.com. |
