sE X1 condenser and Project Studio Reflexion Filter launch today
| Posted in Music Technology
The sE X1 large diaphragm condenser microphone is being announced this morning by sE Electronics, alongside the Project Studio Reflexion Filter, in a dual launch that sE is calling “one of the most exciting product roll-outs this decade”.
If that sounds like a bold introduction then the manufacturer isn’t holding back in its faith in the new microphone, adding that the X1 is “one of the coolest, sexiest new mics for the MI market in years”. That’s quite a boast, but sE is hoping to back it up with a feature set that includes a 10dB pad, bass cut and a hand-built capsule. Like all of sE’s models, the X1 is constructed in the company’s Shanghai facility. Arguably the microphone’s most powerful asset however is its price point, which is pitched directly at sE’s core home recording market, offering “hand-built quality” to project studio owners in time for Christmas.
The Project Studio Reflexion Filter meanwhile sees sE taking its already popular Reflexion Filter technology, used by engineers around the world as a portable solution for reducing room ambience in recordings, straight into the same entry-level, home market that the sE X1 is targeting.
The entry-level version reportedly uses the same basic design as its big brother but with a cut-down list of features. While the Pro version employs multiple layers and acoustic boundaries, the Project Studio Reflexion Filter uses patented polyester acoustic board which is then lined with a high-grade, high-density crystal foam designed to be more effective than standard acoustic foam. Like the sE X1, the new Reflexion Filter is set to arrive in the market bearing a project studio friendly price tag intended to attract a new generation of recording enthusiasts to the technology.
The double announcement has also been timed as an early celebration of sE Electronics’ 10 year anniversary in 2010, and follows a year of preparation by the manufacturer, as sE Managing Director James Ishmaev-Young is quick to explain: “After a year of planning and researching the very best competitor deals and bundles, we think we’ve come up with unbeatable products in terms of performance to price points”.
Will the new products live up to their grand introductions? We’ll be giving you the chance to decide for yourself when both the Project Studio Reflexion Filter and the sE X1 condenser mic go under our reviews spotlight in the next few days.
- sE Electronics X1 large condenser microphone
- sE Electronics Project Studio Reflexion Filter
- sE Electronics X1 Project Studio RF bundle
About Barney Jameson
A contributor, editor and in some cases creator of more music and pro audio magazines than he cares to remember, Barney Jameson is a veteran of writing about gear, and a pretty keen singer songwriter to boot.
Having started his musical education reading old copies of the Melody Maker while riding the tube to University in the mid-nineties, Barney once sang in a band called Sugarstone, troubling record company chequebooks not quite enough to make it a career option. Instead, he achieved his goal of starting a music magazine of his own when he founded Playmusic in the early noughties. Later on, having exploited VIP access to as many festivals as possible, he wrote about the pro audio industry throughout Europe and the Middle East, travelling to far-flung destinations such as Dubai, Doha and Muscat (nice mountains).
As the latest addition to the DV247 team, Barney has big plans. But when he’s not plotting online domination of the musical instrument world, he keeps himself busy writing songs on a battered old acoustic guitar and playing them to audiences in his home town.
Tags: large diaphragm condenser microphone, project studio, Reflexion Filter, SE Electronics