artists
TAGGED: N22
“I’ve been using the RCA BK5 on guitars for years, but after hearing the AEA KU5A, it will be my new mic on guitar amps! So much clarity, depth, and punch! Amazing!”
Rob Schnapf / Elliott Smith, Dr. Dog, Booker T. Jones
“I dig the KU5A on snare. Beef and snap. Good rejection. Sounded real good and natural. It was all there.”
Jeremy Zuckerman / Legend of Korra, Echo Society
“I use the N8 and N22 on just about everything at this point. Their silky, smooth, yet detailed sound gets me a great recording that sits well in the mix every time, whether I’m recording strings, guitar, piano, winds, voice…”
Jeff Tweedy / Wilco
“I love the AEA N22. We’ve used it on almost every electric guitar track I’ve recorded since getting that mic…”
Adam Granduciel / The War On Drugs
“The N8’s and the N22’s have become pretty much the standard for both the band’s touring set up and day to day recording in my studio.”
Manny Nieto / Health, Breeders
“The R84 is aces across the board with sound quality. Musically capturing exactly what I’m looking for and built like a tank!”
Tim Reitnouer / Sara Watkins
“Ribbon mics are certainly part of my toolbox, and AEA makes some of the best.”
Kurt Vile
“The AEA N22 we use on my amp live sounds killer!”
Kurt Ballou / Converge, God City
“I used to combine two or more mics per amp. With the N22, I don’t need to do that anymore.”
Hanan Rubinstein / Alicia Keys, Pharrell, Kanye West
“I’m lovin the mics… the R44 is incredible on anything I put it on pretty much”
Douglas Charles Showalter / Cam
“I can’t say enough great things about how much of a workhorse [the N22] has been in my studio.”
Julian Lage
“The N22 is one of the most musical microphones I’ve ever used.”
Justin Meldal-Johnsen / Beck, Nine Inch Nails, Air
“My N22 has turned out to be an incredible bass amp mic…to such an extent that I won’t record bass without it.”
Josh Block / Leon Bridges
“There are very few pieces of equipment that can handle the amount of tasks I put the KU5A up against. It handled all of them effortlessly with the perfect amount of clarity and enjoyable qualities. It’s a winner, hands down.”
Chris Koltay / War On Drugs, Deerhunter
“AEA mics are my first line of defense in the war against boring, sterile sounds. You will not find a finer example of the intersection of craftsmanship and sonic truth.”
David Gaume / Local Natives, Autolux
The [N22 and N8] seem to pick up pleasing character and intimacy to sources while leaving out the squirrely harshness of guitar amps and shrillness of cymbals.
Julian Cisneros / RED Digital Cinema
“AEA Microphones, specifically the N8 Stereo Pair, coupled with the RPQ2, give me the exact warmth, transparency and detail that I had been searching for!”
Ronan Chris Murphy / King Crimson
“I tried the AEA N22 on a wide range of sources and it always sounded good, which means that artists recording with the N22 will never deliver a bad sounding recording to me!”