el Diablo Mercenary Edition Ribbon Microphone

Heresy!  That's what they said when Bob Crowley and Hugh Tripp starting telling the very first people about the new phantom power proof, windblast, and extreme SPL capable ribbon microphone material the duo were inventing at Crowley and Tripp Microphones.  “We want to do away with the kitchen foil that is in every other ribbon mic”, they said. The traditionalists gasped.

And now at the 2007 AES meeting in New York, the Mercenary Edition el Diablo Ribbon Microphone with Roswellite™ Advanced Material was unveiled, using a new class of advanced materials called Supermatter™, engineered with nano-scaled structures that provide incredible strength and durability, far greater than all of the old foil materials that have been used (and cursed at) for decades. 

El Diablo is the first microphone to feature Crowley and Tripp’s Roswellite™ high-strength, shape memory ribbon technology, and it can go where no ribbon mic has been before: inside pounding kick drums and blaring horns, pushed up against cranked guitar amplifier speakers, and on loud singers on an open, outdoor stage.  Roswellite™ revolutionizes the field of ribbon mics, does away with the worries forever, and has that Crowley and Tripp ribbon mic tone, so it can be used throughout your studio, and for live sound, indoors or out.

Roswellite™ ribbon material was developed by Crowley and Tripp at Soundwave Research Labs as a result of a challenge from Mercenary Audio’s “Fletcher” to produce a ribbon mic for kick drums. "I wanted the sound of a 421 inside the drum and a 47 FET out by the hole", said Fletcher, "the result from el Diablo is a mic that combines the aggression of the 421 with the size of the 47 FET, without any of the phase issues that often occur when using two mics on a single source.”

El Diablo, the “heretic” of the Crowley and Tripp line, is an entirely new type of microphone with smooth ribbon sound, high output, and unequalled sound pressure level handling.  And with Factory No Haggle Price on US sales of el Diablo, consumers know they are getting the best deal with the fewest middlemen- only through authorized Crowley and Tripp dealers. The Mercenary Edition of el Diablo is in stock and shipping as of October 1st 2007.