ROSWELL MINI K47 Stereo Cardioid Condenser Microphones

There’s an air of efficiency around

Roswell’s Mini K47; no-nonsense, straight to the heart of it, says what it does on the tin. And at the heart of these mics is the capsule; a K47-style one, the sort you’ll find in Neumann tube mics like the U47 and M49. The mini part? Well these ain’t no U47-sized mics.

A pair of Mini K47s turned up in the office after I met Roswell’s owner Matt McGlynn at NAMM earlier in the year. Unfortunately, I got caught up moving around a bit, and they’d only found their way onto a number of guitar recordings. Recently, things have settled down and I found the time and projects to try them on some other sources.

Even if you’ve not heard of Matt, you’ve probably landed on a website of his. Through them, you can trace his journey from recording enthusiast to a mic manufacturer who is intimately familiar with most mic