R88 Product Page Playlist

For more information and AEA Session videos, please visit: http://www.AEAsessions.com

Drums performed by Zach Harmon
Cello performed by Artyom Manukyan
Videography and audio by Alex Chaloff

The AEA Sessions is a collaboration between filmmaker and recording engineer Alex Chaloff and AEA Microphones. The motivation behind this project is to pair highly stylized video with pristine audio to showcase some of the finest microphones and musicians in the world.

96k 24bit waves. No EQ, compression, or effects.

R88mk2 - Cello Bowed - The AEA Sessions

This is the individual room track from the drum solo video on http://www.AEAsessions.com. This is a stereo file with just the R88 that is about 15 feet back from the drums.

Download and listen to the other files in the playlist to compare them or put them in your DAW to hear them at the same time.

File Information: 96k 24bit wavs. These are raw files with no eq, compression, or effects.

The AEA Sessions is a collaboration between filmmaker and recording engineer Alex Chaloff and AEA Microphones. The motivation behind this project is to pair highly stylized video with pristine audio to showcase some of the finest microphones and musicians in the world.

These tracks were all recorded at the Bridge Recording studio in Los Angeles. For more information on their incredible studio, visit http://www.thebridgerecording.com/.

R88mk2 - Drums Room - The AEA Sessions

This is the individual overhead track from the drum solo video on http://www.AEAsessions.com. This is a stereo file with just the R88. 

Note: These tracks are muted in the Drum Solo AEA Sessions video. Listen to the other file in the playlist to compare them to the N8s as overheads. 

File Information: 96k 24bit wavs. These are raw files with no eq, compression, or effects.

The AEA Sessions is a collaboration between filmmaker and recording engineer Alex Chaloff and AEA Microphones. The motivation behind this project is to pair highly stylized video with pristine audio to showcase some of the finest microphones and musicians in the world.

These tracks were all recorded at the Bridge Recording studio in Los Angeles. For more information on their incredible studio, visit http://www.thebridgerecording.com/.

R88mk2 - Drums Overheads - The AEA Sessions

This is the isolated track of an AEA R88 mk2 ribbon microphone on the grand piano at Sear Sound studio in New York City. This is the raw file straight off the custom Sear-Avalon preamp with no EQ, compression or other processing applied.

This file accompanies our Fix It In The Mic video about Sear Sound Studios. Watch the video and learn about the setup here: 
http://bit.ly/searsound

Music: Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E-minor (op. 28: no. 4)
Performer: Roberta Findlay
Recorded by Chris Allen at Sear Sound NYC

Download the high-res 96 kHz / 24 Bit linear wave audio file for best playback quality!

Learn more about the AEA R88 microphone here:
http://www.ribbonmics.com/microphone/legacy-series/r88-mk2

Sear Sound Piano - AEA R88

For the acoustic takes, each microphone was recorded separately. 

Positioning:
The mics were placed pointing right where the neck of the guitar meets the body. The N22 was about 6 inches away, the N8 was about 12 inches away, and the R88 was about 14 inches away. This was not a scientific shoot out, but more a comparison for people to hear how each microphone has different characteristics and different sweet spots.

Julien Bitoun, guitar extraordinaire and head of the guitar department at our French dealer, WoodBrass, played guitar on these tracks. These files were recorded at WoodBrass' showroom in Paris, France. www.WoodBrass.com

File Information: 48k 24bit wavs. These are raw files with no eq, compression, or effects.

Preamp: AEA RPQ 500

The playback via SoundCloud is heavily data-compressed. Download the high-resolution PCM files for best playback quality.

R88mk2 - Martin Acoustic 000 - 28EC Sunburst - Chords

VIOLA - AEA N8 MIC - RPQ500 PRE - BURL MOTHERSHIP

VIOLIN - AEA N8 MIC - RPQ500 PRE - BURL MOTHERSHIP

STRINGS - AEA N8 - RPQ500 - BRICASTI M7 - TK BC501 - BURL MOTHERSHIP

Cello Pizzicato - STRINGS - AEA N8 - RPQ500 - BURL MOTHERSHIP

OH - AEA R88 - The Ribbon Pre - Thermionic Pheonix Compressor - 50:50 Wet:Dry Blend

OH - AEA R88 - The Ribbon Pre - Thermionic Phoenix Compressor - 100% Wet

OH - AEA R88 - The Ribbon Pre - Lynx Aurora 16

Trumpet - 50 50 Blend - Manley Ref Gold - AEA 44C - AWS - Symphony MK II

Trumpet - AEA 44C - AWS - Symphony IO MKII

This video features an AEA R88s on overhead. For more info about the AEA R88 ribbon microphone visit: http://bit.ly/2rqmLn1

Learn more about AEA Ribbon Mics and Preamps: http://www.ribbonmics.com | http://www.facebook.com/ribbonmics | http://www.instagram.com/ribbonmics

Input List: AEA R88 - AEA RPQ500 Preamps - RME UFX Converter - Nuendo DAW - 96K/24bit

Cameron Miller is a drummer from Whittier, CA. CSULA drum performance alum, he is endorsed by SoulTone Cymbals and Mapex Marching and is the principal Band Director at Rancho-Starbuck Middle School. Cameron performs in the Pasadena-based alternative band Nahneen Kula, and he contributed to the most recent record from rock band Tubby Boots.

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OHs No Kick - R88 - AEA Listening Library

I see the dark beyond the light and pray to get home alive
Humbled and sobered, I take the lead
And then I draw back

Stay the moon

Arm in arm and home from war, fortresses overrun
A summer of dry hope falls away and then the white comes

Stay the moon

See the art in the baby's eyes
and the light to return home to tides of somewhere far
I might still be alive

I am a part
I am a piece
I am a psalm
I am the church
Another pawn with a back to break
Wishing on bold, gold corporate woes to burn and raze

You are the sea and the dark
An unknown goal without a mark
Come morning, you knock at the door with a basket of dried berries and sweet liqueur

Gold star to clear to bar for someone bleached in light
Skin and blood is warm to touch
Tomorrow's bite is cold

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AEA is family owned and operated in beautiful Pasadena, California. Proudly independent, we still manufacture all our microphones by hand right here in the United States. 

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R88mk2 - Martin Acoustic 000 - 28EC Sunburst - Chords

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