Ehrlund EHR-M

The Ehrlund EHR-M is a studio condenser microphone developed by Swedish company Ehrlund in the early 2010's. It has an triangular-shaped diaphragm, designed to minimise resonances and add lots of dimensions to the sound.

Stewart Copeland has been using the Ehrlund for ambient miking on his drums at his home studio (sometimes known as the Sacred Grove or Worried Rabbit) from 2018 onwards.

Stewart Copeland on the Ehrlund: "We used a lot of microphones. Of course there were some pieces from Neumann, AKG and Sennheiser. But my new microphone discovery is a Swedish microphone called Ehrlund with triangular diaphragm. It’s an amazing ambience mic. It cures one of the problems of recording drums for instance. Usually you put two Neumann mics at the end of the room, but you also get that woo-wah sound. You don’t necessarily hear it with your ear but it is part of the character of that compressed ambience sound. It’s not real and this microphone eliminates that so you get the ambience in the room. That’s actually how the drum should sound like."

Further information

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