Soyuz - 011 FET
Soyuz has designed the 011 FET for demanding recordings where every creative breath takes on an almost tactile dimension, and its discreet appearance reflects a real desire to slip naturally into your workspace. With its body cut like a piece of jewellery and its timbre sculpted to magnify nuances, this studio condenser microphone exudes a surprisingly warm personality. The 011 FET creates an invisible thread between your source and your project, a thread that gives the impression that the sound material comes into the mix by itself. Its balanced sensitivity, ∅19 mm capsule and agile behaviour offer an expressive palette that sticks to your instruments like a second skin. An inspiring tool, ready to invite itself into your ideas as if the motherland were gently blowing on your next recording.
Presentation
The Soyuz 011 FET features a stable cardioid polar pattern that focuses energy on the useful zone, and this precision helps enormously when you want to channel an instrument in a reverberant room. Its -10dB pad provides effective headroom for aggressive sources, and this duo offers real versatility when you're alternating between fine strings and assertive percussion.
The Soyuz 011 FET easily finds its place in a wide variety of contexts, as its linear response between 20 Hz and 20 kHz enables it to capture the softness of a breath as well as the roundness of a snare drum struck with a straight face. Its maximum level of 130 dB SPL gives you solid amplitude, and its behaviour remains stable even when you explore slightly atypical pick-up angles in search of original textures. The way it interprets the midrange brings appreciable coherence, and this nuance offers a real advantage when you're playing with complex or very harmonically rich sources. You end up with a tool that adapts to your ideas rather than the other way round, and this feeling naturally inspires your arrangement choices.
The Soyuz 011 FET is particularly pleasant when tracking moving sources, like an instrumentalist literally living his performance, because its 19 mV/Pa sensitivity stabilises the capture without excess. This behaviour gives an impression of fluidity between movement and capture, and you feel a nice continuity when you adjust the distance or angle. The microphone reacts like a reliable partner, ready to interpret spontaneous play without constraint.
Other features
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Soyuz 011 FET
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Studio microphone
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Series: 011
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Country of production: Russia (Tula)
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Type: condenser
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Operation: transformerless circuit
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Capsules: gold-plated ∅19 mm diaphragm
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Directionality : cardioid
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Pad -10 dB : insert module
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Frequency response: 20 Hz ⭢ 20 kHz
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Max. pressure level 130 dB SPL
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Sensitivity: 19 mV/Pa
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Equivalent noise: 16 dB (A-weighted)
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Output impedance: 150 Ω
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Power supply: 48 V ⎓ (phantom power)
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Supplied with: Wooden box, microphone clip
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Colour: black
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Dimensions: 91 x ∅19 mm
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Weight : 76 g
To find out more...
To get the most out of the Soyuz 011 FET, remember to use a stable articulated stand to adjust your placement precisely, because this mic reacts particularly well when it finds the exact angle that brings out the best in your instrument. Finally, remember to use a quality XLR cable to ensure clean transmission, because this type of product reveals its character best when your signal travels in a coherent chain.
