Myburgh M1 Valve Microphone

Does Myburgh’s vintage-inspired valve mic have the potential to become a classic in its own right?

SAM INGLIS

Producer, engineer and connoisseur of high-end audio gear Andrew Myburgh is a South African now resident in Berlin. For someone looking to build high-end studio microphones, that’s about the best place you could possibly end up, and Andrew has recruited two of the biggest names in the field, Andreas Grosser and Eckehard Dux, to collaborate on the design of his first product. All three individuals are experts on vintage mics, but, refreshingly, they haven’t set out to recreate a particular model from the past. Instead, they’ve used their joint experience to create something new that builds on those classic designs. The result is the M1: a no-compromise, multi-pattern valve capacitor microphone. One Love The review M1 arrived in a black Peli-type case with cutouts for the power supply, the cable and the…

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Sound On Sound USA (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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