TIERRA Audio New Twenties Ribbon Microphone (Limited Edition)
Impressive colour and presence for singer-songwriters who want to thrill.
The Essence of the 20s, Ultra-Modern Sound.
At the end of 2020, motivated by the hard situation the world was suffering, TIERRA Audio set out to pay tribute to the tireless spirit of self-improvement with which the women and men of the 1920s faced the many difficulties that their particular beginning of the century put in their way.
Years later, that golden decade of our history would be known as “The Roaring 20s.”
After more than a year of research and development, the result of Esther Gutiérrez and Javier Pascual’s vision – Founders at TIERRA Audio – is a high-end studio and live condenser microphone with a powerful sound and unmatched aesthetics that retains the glamour and elegance of The Roaring Twenties, along with the technological sophistication demanded by this new century.
The time has come to live with happiness, passion, and good music these “New 20s.”
The Sound for the Most Modern Recordings
There are many factors that make a microphone capture and reproduce sound in a more or less transparent or coloured way, with more or less background noise, and more body or flat.
The New Twenties gives you a warm, deep, and creamy sound, rich in harmonics and with the right balance of brightness in treble that will bring to your musical recordings and professional voiceovers a rounded sound body, both in studio and live, but always with the important dose of definition and presence that modern productions demand.
A huge engineering effort with great professionals in the industry who have collaborated with us in the development and sound modeling of this microphone, and that has allowed us to obtain the color and timbre personality we dreamed of since we started with the idea of this challenging product.
Visual and sound personality, with an irresistible price.
Handmade in Madrid with the Help of the Best.
To guarantee the final quality of our microphones, we make technical decisions based on objective data that have been tested and validated over the years.
—The electret capsule that captures the sound in the New Twenties is made in the USA from the highest quality materials.
We put the enormous sensitivity of the expert hands and ears that have equipped some of the most legendary and renowned microphones in the industry at the service of your music.
Absolutely premium sound. No shortcuts, no reservations.
—Two ultra-low noise FET transistors are responsible for amplifying the sound captured by the capsule. The best on the market.
These transistors are hand-selected by our engineers so that their calibration values are perfectly equal.
In this way, the signal is amplified as silently as possible, and the resulting sound is given a fully balanced analog character before the signal is enriched with the harmonic content of the transformer.
—The peculiar line transformer that incorporates the New Twenties provides the imposing harmonic richness of its sound, essential to achieve that unique texture in your voice: rounded, warm, creamy and present.
We know it’s not common to use line transformers in microphones (electronics purists will be pulling their hair out right now), but at TIERRA Audio we are electronics nuts and we love the exciting ‘black magic’ they bring to the enveloping dynamics of the timbre, and the attractive psychoacoustic effect they produce. Sounding good is what matters.
Our friends at Lundahl® specialize in audio and have been making the world a better place since 1958 with their handmade-in-Sweden transformers.
Made by Engineers. Conceived for Artists.
Features & Technical specifications
- Technology: Condenser
- Capsule Type: Electret (large diaphragm)
- Polar Pattern: Cardioid
- Powering: Phantom, +48Volts (IEC 61938)
- Maximum Power Consumption: 4.8mA / 230mW
- Transformer: Original Lundahl Transformers®
- Sensitivity: -26dBV / 50mV/Pa (Ref. 1V / Pa)
- Self-Noise -108dBV(A)
- Maximum SPL: 120dB @ 1kHz, THD < 1%
- Output Impedance: 200 Ω
- Output Connector: XLR balanced and shielded (aerial)
- Frequency Response and Harmonic Distribution:
- Weight (without packaging): 485 grams (without anti-pop), 520 grams (with anti-pop)
- Dimensions (without packaging): 120mm (H) x 100mm (W) x 29mm / 43mm (D), without anti-pop / with anti-pop
- Weight (with packaging): 1.12kg
- Dimensions (with packaging): 200mm (H) x 180mm (W) x 70mm (D)
Condenser Microphones
TIERRA Audio New Twenties Ribbon Microphone (Limited Edition)