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The Abbey Road King's Microphones Black Friday deal takes 69% off this Waves utility plugin, which brings it to $29.99 until Nov 26, 2026.
It is a plugin built around microphones that EMI made in the 1920s and 30s for British royalty, including King George V, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
The mics sat in the EMI Archive Trust for decades. Production on the film "The King's Speech" brought them back out.
After a careful restoration, they recorded the film's orchestral sections and were used to re-amp the dialogue for authenticity.
Abbey Road engineers then started re-amping guitars and synths through them. The maker says this gave a crunchy, filter-like quality, even though the mics were never designed for that job.
The plugin was modeled in close collaboration with Abbey Road Studios. The maker says the 1920s and 30s mic characteristics give you "lost" mic timbres that you will not find on a modern capsule.
The maker points to the King George V as a rare find, since no other carbon microphone design of its kind is known to exist.
Each mic has 3 range positions: close, natural and ambient. That gives you a way to dial in how much of the room and distance colours the source.
The maker pitches it at sound design and music production, with a vibey character rather than a clean, flat capture.
It also suggests following it with a reverb. Route the mic into a bus or send and follow it with a reverb to get unusual room and ambiance effects. Formats are VST, AU and AAX.
On PC, it needs Windows 10 or later. Formats are VST and AAX.
Yes. The Abbey Road King's Microphones Black Friday deal takes 69% off this Waves plugin, which brings it to $29.99 until Nov 26, 2026.
It is a Waves utility plugin modeled with Abbey Road Studios on restored EMI microphones from the 1920s and 30s. The mics were made for British royalty and recorded parts of the film "The King's Speech."
Each mic has 3 range positions: close, natural and ambient. According to the developer, no other carbon microphone model of this kind is known to exist, and they recommend placing reverb after the plugin in the signal chain.
On Mac it runs on macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15 as VST, AU and AAX. On Windows 10 or later it comes as VST and AAX.
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