Inspired By A Classic 50s Ribbon Mic With Modern Components & Iconic Tones
The Warm Audio Fen-tone™ is inspired by a classic '50s ribbon mic built with upgraded, modern components to deliver iconic tones. Premium components including a custom Japanese ribbon, Neodymium magnet, and CineMag USA transformer capture the most popular sounds heard on guitars, overheads, and horns. A 26 dB JFET in-line preamp enables active use with low-gain preamps.
Features
The Ultimate Ribbon Mic For Instrument Recording:The Warm Audio Fen-tone™ is a recreation of a classic 50s ribbon mic design with modern components, iconic tones, and feature upgrades. Delivering rich detail at high SPLs, the figure-8 Fen-tone is ideal for many instruments, especially guitar cabs, horns, drum overheads, pianos, and more. In addition to custom, premium components, Fen-tone includes an in-line Warm Lifter preamp to add 26dB of clean, analog gain to setups with inferior or underpowered preamps.
Tight Lows, Rich Mids, No Harsh Highs:Fen-tone captures powerful bass & 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.
Tailor-Made For Guitar, & More:Fen-tone excels on loud sources that require detail while handling high SPLs, like electric guitar cabs, overheads, and horns. The upgraded components in Fen-tone deliver intricate midrange detail that helps guitars shine in dense mixes.
Selectable All-Analog 26 dB In-Line Warm Lifter Active Preamp: Fen-tone has a selectable, 26dB in-line discrete 5k Ohm high-impedance JFET Warm Lifter circuit onboard, making it easy to plug directly into audio interfaces or inferior preamps without volume, tone, and frequency loss.
Figure-8 Polar Pattern: Fen-tone has a figure-8 polar pattern which helps eliminate side-address noise when recording. That means that Fen-tone will pick up what is directly in front of it and behind it. This feature is great for recording two acoustic instrumentalists facing each other, playing into either side of the mic without picking up as much bleed as other microphone designs.
Hand-Inspected & Tested at Warm Audio HQ in Austin, Texas: Carefully inspected at Warm Audio Headquarters in Austin, Texas by trained engineers & musicians with a passion for helping you sound your best.
Tech Specs
Instrument Ribbon Microphone With In-Line 26dB Preamp
Custom CineMag USA Transformer
Powerful Rare-Earth Neodymium Magnet
99.1% Aluminum, 1.8-Micron thick Ribbon
Selectable 26dB In-Line Warm Lifter Preamp (Phantom Power Required)
Review by Paul W. on 15 Apr 2025review stating Great Kit
This kit responds very well from ghost notes to hard hits, the kit is very solid and can take hard playing, I'm happy with the samples in the module as well as getting the BFD player as well, I'm using the kit at church as well as jamming and everyone says it sounds great!
