T-12 Microphone Kit

T-12 Microphone Kit The T-12 is a stunning vocal microphone in DIY kit form. Intermediate-level hobbyists can build it in two to three hours. The kit provides a genuine vintage microphone circuit (based on a Neumann design) with a selected large-diaphragm capsule (based on the AKG capsule from the C12, ElaM 251, and C414). The finished microphone delivers great tone and vibe, with a frequency response that complements vocals, acoustic guitars, and drum overheads. About the Circuit Transformer microphones just sound different. This particular circuit yields a warmer, rounder sound than you'd get from a transformerless circuit. The beneficial 2nd harmonic coloration from the circuit is not due to components we added, though; this mic has what might be the simplest audio signal path in any microphone: Capsule → JFET → Capacitor → Transformer We chose each of those parts with care: hand-selected capsule, manually biased NOS JFET, polypropylene output capacitor, custom transformer. Greg Wel