Bill Putnam Mic Collection

The Bill Putnam Mic Collection provides access to exacting emulations of rare, vintage mics which have been used to record countless iconic artists of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, The Beach Boys, and more. These mic emulations not only nail the classic timbres of iconic mics used by Grammy award-winning engineer Bill Putnam Sr. to track Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, and more, they also faithfully model the transient response, harmonics, proximity effect and three-dimensional polar response of the original mics.

The Bill Putnam Mic Collection plug-in is available exclusively for UA Audio Interfaces and UAD hardware combined with the the Townsend Labs Sphere L22, the first and only three-dimensional microphone-modeling product on the market.

Key Features:

• Record through classic and rare microphones of Bill Putnam Sr.'s legendary collection including the Telefunken Ela M 251E, AKG C12A, Neumann U47, RCA 44, and more.
• Track through Putnam mic models into any UA Audio Interface with near-zero latency.
• Change proximity effect in real-time, or after the recording, to match an earlier vocal take.
• Adjust the polar pattern and other parameters to reduce bleed, room coloration, and feedback, before or after tracking.
• Available exclusively for UAD-2 hardware and UA Audio Interfaces.