Sontronics Mercury Vintage Edition

Sontronics Mercury Vintage Edition Product Details

Description

The Mercury in the Vintage Edition is handmade in England from the best components. Most of the components used have a manufacturing tolerance of less than 1% - a real speciality in this price range. Accordingly, the technical values of the new microphone from Sontronics are excellent: below 12 dB(A) inherent noise, 18 mV/Pa sensitivity. A hand-selected ECC81/12AT7 vacuum tube from European production provides the pleasant tube sound full of character. This tube type leaves its sonic footprint even in microphones of the upper league.

Despite its low price, the Sontronics Mercury comes with additional features that greatly expand its capabilities. The most prominent feature is the adjustable polar pattern. Using a potentiometer on the Mercury's power supply, the polar pattern from omnidirectional to cardioid to figure-eight can be infinitely adjusted to the respective requirements in all intermediate forms. This makes it possible to effectively minimize crosstalk in more complex recording setups - the Mercury is the right microphone for almost any situation. The switchable high-pass filter can effectively keep subsonic noise and bass frequencies below 75 Hz out of the recording. The 10 dB pad extends the Mercury's handling capabilities with signals up to 135 dB.

Features:

• Sontronics Mercury Vintage Edition
• Multi-pattern tube microphone of the upper class
• Developed with the help of well-known producers/technicians (Paul Epworth, Abbey Road Studios)
• Infinitely adjustable directional characteristic (between omni, cardioid and figure of eight)
• Versatile use (solo instruments, speech, orchestra recordings, room microphone, overheads)
• 1.07-inch capsule, edge polarized
• Hand selected ECC81/12AT7 vacuum tube
• Made in England

Technical data:

• Frequency range: 20Hz - 20kHz
• Pad: 0dB, -10dB
• Filter:Linear, 75Hz
• Impedance: ≤200 Ohm
• Sensitivity: 18mV/Pa -33dB ±1.5dB (0dB = 1V/Pa @ 1.000Hz)
• Equivalent noise level: ≤12dB (A-weighted)
• Maximum sound pressure level:125dB (at 0.5% distortion @ 1.000Hz)
• Power supply: 230V / 115V (phantom power is not required)