I was fascinated to learn from last months "Sound On Sound" that the microphones used for the wonderful film "The Kings Speech" were in fact original microphones made for King George restored for the film. I now learn that having captured the sounds of these historic mikes used during the 1920s and 1930s Waves Audio has worked with Abbey Road Studios to develop The King’s Microphones plug-in.
The Waves/Abbey Road plug-in is a digital audio processor, created in concept by Abbey Road Studios and engineered by Waves, and marks the first and very interesting collaboration between Waves and Abbey Road.
The plug-in recreates these rare microphones, giving studio/live mix engineers a quick and easy distinctive vintage/’lo-fi’ sound for vocals, drums; giving post re-mixers a dialogue processor to ‘achieve authentic period-appropriate sounds; and giving sound designers the chance to recreate the sounds of the era and perhaps we may even see Cher overusing the effect very soon.
