# An ass like BLAM...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2005-08-14
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2005/08/an-ass-like-blam/

![An ass like BLAM...](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/cyan-mic.jpg)

Now, this is a good lookin' microphone, make no mistake. [LeWilson Microphones](http://www.lewilsonmicrophones.com/) also puts them out in green and orange. Don't know nothin' about them except that they're damned easy on the eyes, and have a tube in them. No prices on the web site, but I can't see these being cheap. Since words like "custom," "hand-built," "Neumann," and "Haufe" are liberally sprinkled through the single page, I can make a ball-park guess and say you're looking at a $1500 mic right here.

The one thing I find nice about tube mic manufacturers is that, unlike every other company that puts tubes in their gear, they don't feel the need to stick a window on there so you can see it. It's enough to simply say it's a tube mic without having to stick it in your fucking face. I've never understood that. "Look, we put a Russian 12AX7 in this \[insert middle-of-the-road kit here\]! Isn't it fabulous? Now you know it's just fat with a capital Ph!" I'm not sure which is stupider, consumers or the companies that take advantage of them.