Get better sound from your tube microphones with the MP1RCS Stereo Power Supply with Polar-Pattern Control from Grimm Audio. Whether you're using vintage or contemporary models, the MP1RCS will help you get the best possible sonic performance from your investment. The engineers at Grimm have leveraged their extensive experience designing the AD1 converter and CC1 master clock to ensure this boutique power supply takes your microphone pair to it's full potential. This RCS version is a dual-channel supply for a stereo mic set and features large dials that let you adjust the polar patterns on compatible microphones. This configuration is designed for rack-mounting and does not include feet.
Even if the power supply on your vintage microphone set is still functioning, the MP1RCS provides stable power and an exceptionally low noise floor, so it can give you significantly improved sonic results, especially considering that the voltage settings are customized at the factory for optimal performance with your mics. The unit offers discrete voltage regulators, a shunt regulator for the anode supply and a high-precision series one for the filament supply. The anode supply offers a noise floor as low as -100 dBV, which, on average, is 20 dB better than existing supplies, while the shunt design turns the regulator into an active decoupling device, eliminating electrolytics.
The MP1RCS includes two multipin XLR cables that you can attach to your existing microphone cables.
- In many classic mics, the heater voltage is also used to bias the grid of the amplifying tube in the microphone, implicating an open gateway from the heater supply to the sensitive input of the mic’s amplifying stage. Grimm therefore chose to design a clean and ultralow-noise discrete voltage regulator for the heater supply as well. It features very low drift to ensure the heater voltage always remains within specs.
- The MP1RCS features a specially designed discrete shunt high-voltage regulator fed from a current source to maximize suppression from mains-induced anomalies. It also offers very low noise (typically -96 dBV or 16 uV at 20 to 20,000 Hz unweighted). More importantly, this shunt sounds more natural than the more commonly used modern series regulators, due to the absence of electrolytic capacitors at the output.
- Both the high voltage and the heater supplies have an extra crowbar protection circuit that will switch on in case one of the supplies breaks down. This is an extra line of defense to protect the valuable tube in your microphone.