Wunder Audio

The Wunder Audio CM7 Micrphone is a very expensive mic. You probably wont be able to afford to get this for your home studio so you will need to push for your local studio to get this unless you have a great budget and can afford it. But most local studios that have been operating for a while have this on hand. It comes with the Mic in a oak box and a shock mount. OVERALL OPINION You wont be able to appreciate the Wunder Audio CM7 untill you get a chance to record with it. Talk about getting a good quality, it really wont get much better than this and that’s why it is a mic that everyone knows about and everyone wants. The issue is can you afford it, its just too expensive to me. But it will take are of all of your vocal needs. It will give you a very clean and natural sounding vocal that wont need to have too man eq cut offs because its so on point with every type of voice that it records. To me it performs better with a middle tone voice. Not too high and not too low. But this mic is perfect and I wish that I could have it for my home recordings but I guess I will have to save up a lot of money in order to get it. There really isn’t anything negative you can say about this mic. Let this mic do the magic for your vocals and stop having to cut so many frequencies with cheaper mics if you can. However there are some other mics that are made by other companies that have the same specs as this mic that are a lot more affordable. I really cant say if they have the same sound or not because I haven’t tried most of them or had a chance to compare them.

I did not purchase this mic myself, but have been using it at the studio I work at. It is a tube condenser microphone, which are arguably my favorite microphones for soft instruments and voice. This one is particularly special because it uses glass tubes, unlike some of the other Wunder Audio mics. That makes it extremely fragile, which can be problematic. It uses a power supply that is custom made, though it is based off of the Neumann power supplies. The cool thing about this mic is that it has 9 different pickup patterns to choose from. This can give you a wide variety of sounds and uses. The patterns are selected from the power supply unit, not the mic itself, which is also unique. OVERALL OPINION I like this microphone quite a bit. It's probably just as good, or at least almost as good, as a Neumann U 67, and it's interesting because it has a greater variety of pickup patterns in it. While I tend to use only a few of these patterns personally (not having the need for too many crazy pickup patterns), I do really enjoy the versatility of this mic. Not only that, but it sounds absolutely great on vocals. I don't know if I like it as a room mic the way I've used other tube condensers (I'm referring to drum kits, other loud instruments) as much as I enjoyed it on acoustic guitars and vocals. The cool thing is that it works well with different ranges, too. I liked the sound it gave me with deeper voiced female singers, baritone male singers, and male tenors equally well. I haven't recorded any sopranos with it so I don't know how they hold up. The microphone seems to have great response in all of the frequency spectrums, so it gives you a full, dynamic sound that is impressive. I highly recommend this microphone. It's cheaper than Neumann and arguably just as good.

The Wunder Audio PEQ1 is a high quality channel strip consisting of a microphone preamp and a three band EQ. The unit has both XLR and 1/4 inch connections and is an all analog piece of equipment. It isn't a rack mountable piece of gear as it looks like it will fit in a non traditional type of racking system. UTILIZATION The make up of the Wunder Audio PEQ1 is very similar to that of most Neve EQs and has been widely copied, so if you are familiar with the configuration of Neve modules, you'll understand how to use this without any problems. Each of the EQ bands has parameters to choose the frequency and to set the gain and there is also a knob for setting the level of the mic pre. There is also a switch for selecting either the line or mic input as well as an EQ bypass and a phase button. I've never had a need to look at the manual so I can't say anything about it... SOUND QUALITY The sound quality of the Wunder Audio PEQ1 is everything I look for in analog channel strip. It is perfect for any type of application as the EQ makes it possible to shape the sound of this to fit any situation. I've used it on vocals, drums, and electric guitar and the strip has gone beyond my expectations for all three applications. This isn't modeled after any specific Neve, but rather after a one of a kind custom model. It really has one of the best sounds I have heard from a channel strip, both in terms of the mic preamp itself and the EQ. It is both clean and warm and is truly the perfect combination of these attributes... OVERALL OPINION While Wunder Audio's PEQ1 is very similar to a lot of Neve models, this is still a very unique model. If you like the Neve sound (which you would be crazy not to), then you'll definitely like what the PEQ1 brings to the table. The price is expensive and probably out of the price range for home studio owners, but I would absolutely recommend this to professionals looking for top notch tone. The PEQ1 is one of the coolest Neve copies that I have used and would definitely recommend looking into it...