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| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 50 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
10-year warranty & 60-day money-back guarantee included
If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 50 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
- Mouth and Lip-Care Products
- CDs, DVDs and Software
We can collect your return for a small fee, or you can send it back to us yourself. The collection fee can be found in the returns information on each product's page on Gear4music.
In the unlikely event that any item in this order is faulty, damaged or incorrect on receipt, notify us within 14 days and we'll arrange a free collection.
When returning an order please ensure products are appropriately packaged and protected, to prevent them from getting damaged.
This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 50 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
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Key Features
The United Studio Technologies UT TWIN87 Condenser Microphone is the definitive 87-style microphone, crafted with the finest components and parts available. The culmination of meticulous testing of vintage and modern examples, the UT TWIN87 authentically replicates the ideal characteristics of both microphone eras, delivering the most versatile studio microphone to date. Built using only the finest parts available including a hand-wound output transformer with improved metal mass for higher headroom, 24k gold-sputtered dual-diaphragm for accurate acoustic properties and brass-milled dual backplate, the UT TWIN87 is the ultimate studio recording microphone.
Not content with providing one microphone voicing, the UT TWIN87 features a dual topology circuit design, enabling you to switch between Vintage and Modern voicing. Inspired by the research findings, each era of 87-style microphone produces different sonic results and has been implemented into the UT TWIN87. Vintage mode is soft and forgiving with modern being more upfront and punchy. Highly versatile, the UT TWIN87 is the ideal microphone for modern producers looking for a workhorse condenser that can accurately capture everything from vocals, drums, piano, guitar and just about anything else you throw at it.
Product Ref: 225274
For United Studio Technologies, only the best will do. This is why countless vintage U-87-style microphones were collected, dating back over 50 years to some of the earliest models available, tested and examined with painstaking detail. Under a microscope, these microphones were analysed for parts, performance and sound quality with the aim of replicating the best aspects of each to create the perfect vintage 87-style microphone available.
Not limiting the search to vintage models, modern production models were also exhaustively analysed to gain a better understanding of how the microphone has developed throughout the decades. Armed with extensive knowledge, United Studio Technologies set to work to create the definitive 87-style microphone, the UT TWIN87, taking the best of old and new.
Taking on board the unique character and sound quality differences of the modern and vintage iterations of the legendary microphone, the UT TWIN87 needed a way to accurately portray these sounds. Straying away from using a simple EQ curve to correct for any frequency differences, the UT TWIN87 makes use of a dual circuit topology design to achieve this difficult feat.
Switchable via the onboard toggle, the UT TWIN87 enables you to switch between modern and vintage voicing on the fly to find the sound that's right for your production, mix and instrument. Vintage mode polarises the K87-style capsule directly from your source of phantom power, engaging the dual backplate into the circuit. In line with the best vintage examples that were scoured during research and development, this mode will enable the UT TWIN87 to create a soft and forgiving tone that's ideal for delicate female vocals, dynamic piano performances and even orchestral strings.
Switching to the modern mode, the UT TWIN87 utilises the onboard JFET oscillator to feed a hotter signal directly to the amp circuit. Typical of modern 87-style microphones, this hotter signal delivers a punchier and louder sound, jumping out of your speakers and taking the foreground of your mix. Ideal for powerful rock vocalists, blistering electric guitar cabinets or for punchy room microphone sounds on a drumkit, the modern mode is ideal for contemporary producers and mixing engineers that require extra attack in your sound.
Every component and part within the TWIN87 microphone has been hand-selected and designed to deliver precision accuracy and authentic sonic characteristics. Redesigned from the ground up, the K87-esque dual-diaphragm backplate capsule is precision milled from brass and skinned with 6-micron Japanese mylar. Sputtered with 24K gold, the acoustic properties of the UT TWIN87 are unquestionable, capturing fast transients with ease under a wide frequency range from 20 Hz - 20 kHz with high SPL levels up to 127dB.
Often limiting the sonic fidelity and character of the 87-style microphone, the transformer size plays a large role in the overall microphone response. A common theme found throughout vintage examples was that larger transformer designs carry more desirable sonic characteristics. Staying true to the design and build-quality ethos, the United Studio Technologies UT TWIN87 makes no compromises, employing a newly designed custom-wound transformer. Boasting 4x the mass of transformers found in conventional 87-style microphones, the United Studio Technologies UT TWIN87 features unrivalled headroom, ensuring no unwanted signal degradation or distortion takes place, even at ultra-low frequencies. Ideal for recording instruments such as bass guitar cabinets, the UT TWIN87's ultra-high headroom will mean that even powerful low-end instruments won't cause any clipping or interference in your recorded signal, even when at high listening volumes.
