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CardioidViolet Design Ltd. Flamingo Junior

MSRP: $1,016 Cardioid Condenser Microphone

Violet Design Ltd. Flamingo Junior

Description

The Flamingo Junior Standard, aka “The Junior,” and the Flamingo Junior Vintage, are downsized, FET versions of the company’s high-end Flamingo tube microphones.

The Junior Standard and Junior Vintage differ in only two respects:

  1. The Vintage is tuned to more closely resemble the sound of vintage mics, with warmer mids and diminished highs, and
  2. the body is painted matte black instead of polished violet.

The hardware for both mics is identical. The capsule employs a single, 26mm (large) diaphragm, shockmounted within a head described as “acoustically transparent;” it consists of multiple layers of brass mesh. Electronics are Class A and include a custom-wound humbucking transformer (as in the tube versions).

VioletThe custom-tuned frequency response has smooth enhancement at the lowest registers, mid-range at 2kHz-3kHz, and also in the 12kHz region, yielding recordings with low-end punch and high-end air.

Both models are phantom powered.

The Violet Design Ltd. Flamingo Junior is also known as: Junior, Flamingo-Jr, Flamingo Jr.

Pickup Patterns Pads & Filters
  • Cardioid (20 - 20,000 Hz)
Diaphragm size Impedance Max SPL
26mm (1.02'') 100 Ohms (Low (50-1000 Ohms)) 134 dB
Weight Length Max Diameter Interface(s)
440g (15.52oz) 210mm (8.27'') 48mm (1.89'')
    Power Specifications
    • Requires Phantom Power
    • Phantom voltage: 48v

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