James Ishmaev - Young - on the VR ribbon series award from PAR
Tuesday 15th March 2011
'We are delighted to have won a Pro Audio Review Excellence Award for the VR1 and VR2 mics… these products represent a huge leap in ribbon mic technology, another pending patent from sE and the culmination of several years of development work under the guidance of sE's CEO Mr Siwei Zou. We are very proud of the recognition this award brings, since it is in the pursuit of bringing innovation to the mass market that will benefit everyone from project studio owners to professionals, something we are very focussed on as a company."
VR1 and VR2 tech: The Voodoo Ribbons from sE are new for 2010 and mark a new era for Ribbon mic technology - until now the only Ribbon mic in the world to perform across 20Hz-20KHz was our own Rupert neve collaboration, the RNR1, crtically acclaimed as the best Ribbon mic in the world. This was achieved using state of the art transformers and a Rupert neve designed circuit board to reveal HF usually absent.
The Voodoo mics however achieve full frequency response using a new mechanical device (patent pending), designed by Siwei Zou, the company CEO. This extraordinary technical acheivment allows the traditional Ribbon capsule to develop and capture frequencies from 20Hz to 20KHz like no other Ribbon on the planet.
The sound is revolutionary; the Voodoo range brings traditional ribbon sound to the project and commercial studio, but extends it to perform as well as most condensers do. The result is superbly detailed and wonderfully open and natural sounding recordings of acoustic instruments and guitar cabs.
Frank Wells; Editor - PAR on the VR1 and VR2 Voodoo Ribbon series from sE
"We, the editorial staff of Pro Audio Review, would like to congratulate sE Electronics on your 2010 PAR Excellence Award. This award is presented to professional audio companies that exhibited a particularly significant new product at the 129th AES Convention in November 2010. PAR Excellence Award-winning products are nominated and selected by a panel of audio engineers, professional end-users, and PAR Contributors with the oversight of PAR's editorial staff. These products are chosen based on their potential to enhance the quality of an audio professional's work. Criteria include innovation in design, performance/value ratio, enhanced features, and performance improvements over previous versions."
