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TRANSAMERICA AG IS NOW SHIPPING
THE BRAUNER VM1 KLAUS HEYNE EDITION MICROPHONE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Premier microphone designer and manufacturer
Dirk Brauner has teamed up with legendary microphone modifier Klaus Heyne
to build perhaps the finest large diaphragm, tube, transformer coupled
microphone that the audio industry has ever produced. The Brauner VM1
Klaus Heyne Edition builds upon the acclaimed VM1 with insights and expertise
collected over decades of Heyne's hands-on work restoring and improving
the "classics". Working out of German Masterworks, Heyne is
the person that A&M, Record Plant, LucasFilm, and Disney call upon
to make their good microphones great and their great microphones "magical".
Heyne's attention to detail and Brauner's rare, "spare-no-expense"
philosophy couple to deliver unprecedented excellence. The Brauner/Heyne
team shortened electrical pathways, hand selected components for the production
models, and paid every attention to acoustical construction, from judicious
tuning of the capsule to careful shaping of the grill. They mitigated
phase shift by relying on acoustics, not electronics, to render a natural
sound.
Like all Brauner microphones, the VM1 Klaus Heyne Edition is completely
handmade in Germany. The VM1KHEs are then shipped to the USA for final
pair matching and tweaking at German Masterworks in Oregon. There the
microphones are examined audibly and tested by Klaus Heyne himself, tuned
and adjusted for a specific customer's needs. Transamerica reports there
is now a six-month waiting list for these microphones.
"The Brauner VM1 Klaus Heyne Edition has that magical quality that
cannot be described," observed Brad Lunde, President of Transamerica,
exclusive worldwide distributor of Brauner KHE mics. "Heyne is the
unrivaled master of the mic upgrade craft. He knows what engineers and
artists want from their mics and how to impart that "special something"
that brings forth spectacular performance. To combine Klaus' tuning and
design expertise with Brauner's manufacturing and design expertise is
the kind of thing in which legends are made. No other manufacturer has
attempted to build something in this league for a very long, long time.
Dirk and Klaus working together, building in Germany and tweaking in America,
well it's a once in a lifetime situation. So far, every KHE owner has
called me to share their sheer excitement at the levels of performance
their mic can reach, and KHE owners typically already own quite an assortment
of the world's best microphones!"
Transamerica Audio Group has shipped the first seven Klaus Heyne Edition
mics. Three to Steve Kempster, Hollywood scoring engineer, for the score
of the upcoming movie, "American Outlaw", two are being used
by Mark Conese at Ambient Recording, Stamford, Connecticut for a new jazz
quartet SACD recording, and one to Madison, Wisconsin's Smart Studios
and famed engineer Butch Vig for use with an existing Brauner VM1 on Shirley
Manson and Garbage's next CD.
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