 We're at NAMM 2018 here in the Sennheiser Neumann booth. Yeah, and we're talking with Brian Walker Nice to see you. Thank you now You might be familiar with a TLM 103 or a u87 with a Neumann But you guys are reintroducing another classic the u67 tell us about it. Well, this is a reproduction not a reproduction It is the original From the u67 that was originally built from 1960 to 1971 and we're bringing it back. It starts shipping in the middle of February the Capsule is the original the tube is the original the output transformer is the original So everything inside this microphone is original to the microphone when it was built the original specs when yes Built designed and yeah, because if it if it wasn't truly a u67 We couldn't call it a u67 our customers would just Have all sorts of interesting pieces of vocabulary for us Right You didn't like ship this out to some someplace where they built the stuff cheap and no try to reduce cost and increase profit Yeah, stay true to your it is built in our factory in Germany. Yeah, yeah What makes this mic so special? This microphone has an amazing sound to it. It's a very It really was the microphone of the 60s Not as much of a high-end bump not as big of a EQ curve as the 87 has the 87 can be a little bit of a bright microphone This one's not quite so bright But it still has that brightness to help your voice cut through the mix And then that tube and that big fat transformer in it has a big warm low-end sound Right and tell me a little bit more about what it is You know a lot of people like the idea of having a tube and a microphone What does it do specifically for a Neumann mic as opposed to some of the fake kind of tube stuff that we see out There with red LEDs in them and stuff very little seriously the tube exists inside this microphone as An impedance match between a very very extremely high impedance Capsule and a very low impedance output and the tube is that impedance match and a lot of people Put a lot of weight on the tube in the microphone But it's actually the output transformer that colors the sound the most right But if a tube goes on one of these things you're going to know it You're going to know about it. What are some of the other features is it's multi-pattern? It's multi-pattern it has Omni figure 8 and Cardioid patterns it has a 10 DB pad switch you can add in always very has a low frequency roll off Oh, love so if you've got a lot of low frequency hum from your air conditioner in your studio Trucks roll by and that sort of thing you can roll it out So this is really a full-featured microphone that does everything you would need to her for a voiceover. Yes, okay What's a price point on one of these? Hi, okay Seven thousand seven thousand is street price. Okay, but that's a full kit, right? That's the microphone the suspension kit the power supply Everything very good and all of the parts in the new kit are interchangeable with all the old parts So if you have an old microphone, you can plug it into the new power You can go into the old the you know the microphone junkyard pick them up and it'll all still work it. Yes That's very nice Is Neumann going to be coming up with anything else that they're ready to announce or something coming up in the next couple of years? Not that I know of okay Well, although knowing Wolfgang Fresne I'm sure that there are a number of things cooking in the back of his head right now and but he hasn't told me Well, this is a legendary mic and yes, and certainly if you have a budget for that. This is a great one to have Brian Thank you so much for taking you enjoy the show already