Detail Without Hype

The main reason Roswell Pro Audio exists is because I got tired of over-bright microphones.

I've heard them all. I spent years testing affordable mics (and some not-so-affordable) at RecordingHacks.com. I found, over and over, that most affordable microphones tend to be bright and harsh-sounding.

Sometimes that voicing works, like when you want to bring some sparkle to a large-body guitar whose strings are 37 years old. I don't have any guitars (much less strings) that are that old, though, so those brightly voiced mics just never earned a place in my studio. I loved the promise and the low prices, but the mics never matched their advertising -- they weren't "warm" or "vintage" at all, but hyped and harsh.

I heard some really nice microphones too, but they were priced beyond my budget.

What my studio needed was an affordable workhorse mic that sounds good on just about everything. I envisioned a mic with a balanced frequency response, low noise, and good headroom. The mic would need to be priced at a level that musicians and home studio owners can afford. That was the recipe for the Roswell Mini K87.