Blue Microphones Bottle
Tube Condenser Microphone
Item: BTBOTTLE
The Bottle is Blue's flagship recording tool and its highest achievement in quality and innovation. The Bottle combines low noise and superb transient response integrated with a system of interchangeable capsules, the Bottle Caps. In an instant, the bayonet-mounted Bottle Caps can be exchanged to provide different tonal characteristics and pickup patterns while the included power supply remains on. The Class A discrete amplifier circuit of the Bottle is a thoroughly modern homage to the past, with a design utilizing a single hand-selected EF86 pentode vacuum tube in triode mode. The Bottle is the definition of craftsmanship, with hand-assembled custom components found throughout. With eight different Bottle Caps to choose from, the Bottle provides the ultimate recording experience for any application.
Blue Microphones Bottle
Tube Condenser Microphone
Features:
- The ultimate in hand-built craftsmanship
- Class A discrete amplifier circuit with hand-selected EF86 pentode vacuum tube in triode mode
- Mic system: allows for various capsules to be swapped "on the fly" for maximum versatility
- Integrated capsule shockmounting
- Hand tuned and tested
- Custom-wound output transformer
Specifications:
- Microphone capsule: B6
- Acoustical Operating Principal: Pressure Gradient
- Directional Pattern: Cardioid
- Frequency Range: 20Hz 20KHz
- Sensitivity at 1 kHz into 1k ohms: 20mV/Pa
- Rated Impedance 200 ohms
- Rated Load Impedance Not less than 1k ohms
- S/N ratio CCIR468-3: 76dB
- S/N ratio DIN/IEC 651: 87dB-A
- Noise Level DIN/IEC 651: 7.5dB-A
- Max SPL (0.5% THD) into 2.5k ohms: 134dB
- Dynamic Range (2.5k1/2 load): 98dB
- Supply Voltage (IEC 268-15): 9610 Tube Power Supply
- Weight: 3.74 lbs. (1700 g)
- Dimensions: 15.35" x 3.54", (390x 90 mm)
Includes:
- the B6 Large Cardioid Capsule
- 9610 Tube Power Supply
- Champagne Tube Mic Cable,
- ATA flight case