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"The Amethyst Standard" microphone uses a single diaphragm capsule and is designed for what is known as a 'modern' sound, with airy highs, extended vocal presence, an accented low end response and a unidirectional cardioid pattern.

Both "The Amethyst Standard" and "The Amethyst Vintage" microphones are based on Violet's own original true electrostatic capsules. They feature large-size diaphragms made of the highest quality 6-micron Mylar film. Using Violet's original technology, the diaphragms are tensioned and adjusted on precisely made brass backplates. The diaphragms are sputtered with their special formula of gold mixture to give a faster impulse transient response without sound coloration or low frequency reduction. This also allows the capsule to handle louder sound pressure levels. At the end of the manufacturing process each capsule is carefully checked and measured in an anechoic chamber to ensure optimum performance.

"The Amethyst Standard" and "The Amethyst Vintage" feature a unidirectional cardioid polar pattern which helps to keep ambient studio noise away from your recording. Both microphone models have minimal proximity effect and work close to linear over the wide frontal incidence angle. The microphones headgrill is made as an acoustic filter of multilayer brass mesh that reduces plosive sounds, breath, pop and wind noises, minimises internal resonance effects and keeps high frequencies and sound transparency unaffected. An additional metal mesh studio pop filter and polyurethane open cell foam windscreen are available as an option.

The internal solid state preamplifier is based on a Class-A fully discrete transformerless electronics circuit, built using only the best quality selected components. The circuit is designed under the highest audio standards and provides a linear audio frequency range, high dynamics, low self-noise, and very low audio distortion of all types.

"The Amethyst Standard" and "The Amethyst Vintage" require a 48 Volt phantom power supply, which is available from external microphone preamplifiers and mixing console inputs etc. To get the best performance from your Amethyst microphone, we recommend using a high-quality mic-preamp with a stable 48V phantom power supply.

"The Amethyst Standard" and "The Amethyst Vintage" can be mounted directly on a standard microphone stand. Rugged microphone construction and two internal shockmounts (one for the capsule and one for the electronics), effectively reduce stand rumble, outside infrasonic interference and mechanical shocks. An additional external elastic studio shockmount is also available.

"The Amethyst Standard" and "The Amethyst Vintage" microphones are available in matched stereo pairs to special order.