Eden 650 XE

I??ve been making music since 1973. I started as a cellist in a classical music orchestra. In 1980 i started to record classical music as my second job. I??ve recorded since that. In the end of the eighties i started to record surf music and some blues and rock albums. I just counted I??ve recorded over a 200 albums. Most of them are classical music and surf music.
Nowdays i record most of the albums with HD3 /Pro Tools 6.9 using SSL AWS900 desk. My primary listening monitors are Genelec 1033A, Yamaha ns-10 and my old and trusted Altec duplex monitors.

It is a Tube consender microphone with 3 figures cardioid, eight and ball. It??s made in germany. Propably in the sixties. It seems to be rare, because i haven??t found another one.
I??m using it for vocals, acoustic guitar, horns, piano. Sometimes i use it to drums also, but it depends of a drummer. Mainly of that how hard hitter he / she is. The sound gets a little distorted when the sound level goes 130 db or more. Actually the sound is not bad when the sound level is 130 db or more. Not at all. It could be quite usefull on some projects, but i want to protect this old mike and don??t use it in drums. This mic can do true magic on vocal use. the sound is absolutely like silk . It truly magical thing that i can??t explain. The sound is just amazing. Very wide, accurate, warm and silky. I do have some other good mics and most of the singers first wants to use some neumann ( u-47 wich i own 3, u-67, u87 ) AKG C12 VR, AKG solid tube, etc, but after comparing to EDEN, most of them ( about 80 %) wants to use EDEN. One singer even offered 10 000 Euros ( about 11 000 USD ) of it. I didn??t sell it. I very higly recommend this microphone to everyone who is seriously in the recording business.

I've been in bisness since 1964. I've recorded over a 400 records for many kind of bands. I've never played in a band myself. It's just no my thing. When i started in 1964 we used 2track tape recorders. then we got a studer 4-track reel to reel in 1968 (?) . I've been working in 8 different studios since that. In nowdays i still use analog reel to reel tape recorders ( studer 2" ) on drums, guitars and bass. I prefer the Analog because of better dynamics. You don't have to compress the drums too much ( if at all ) in the recording time. I use Computer systems (Pro Tools )in some of the mixing and mastering process.

This mic is a Tube microphone. Three different patterns (figures ). Eight, cardioid, ball.. These were made in early 60's. I had one in those early sixties. I think i paid something like 900$ of that then. In the late 60's it was stolen in my studio. I was very sad about that and where always looking another one. Finaly i found one last year and bought it rightaway. I have to say it sounds even more stunning than i remembered. I use it on Vocals, Saxofone, guitar (blues ) and on some strings and Piano. It's the warmest sounding microphone ever made. It smoothen vocals very nicely. I own 7 different Neumann Tube mics + Akg C12A (tube version of 414 ) and couple of other tube mics and wide variety of consender mics ( Neumann, Sennheiser,AKG,) this old mic beats them all ( if you are looking for a smooth and warm, still clarity sound). These were made in west germany. I heard that only about 300 were made. These were so expencive to made, so these were too pricy in those days. They had to sell these out under the price of making expences.