Soyuz Microphones will release The Launcher, a magic box designed to give common microphones like the Shure SM57 and Shure SM58 the #SOYUZCharacter.
Introducing The Soyuz Launcher
The Launcher prides itself on being colored and loaded with plenty of character. Soyuz Microphones has achieved this with one of its custom transformers and a top-secret, analogue circuit that took more than two years to develop.
The Soyuz Launcher is a “pre-pre-amp” similar to products by Cloud, sE, Royer, and Crimson, but unlike other boxes that promise clean, transparent gain, it will impart character and color while also boosting your gain by 25dB.
Take Your Sound With You with the new Soyuz Launcher
100% hand built in the Soyuz factory, The Launcher is simple, elegant and sturdy, with a 1.5mm sheet steel shell and no switches. It’s designed to be equally at home in the studio or at the gig. With The Launcher, you can truly take your sound with you.
Dream In Color
In the age of digital recording, “clean and silent” is not usually difficult to achieve. What’s often missing in recordings is that “x factor”: the color and personality that analog gear somehow brings to a track. With The Launcher’s custom transformer and analog circuit, that classic, colorful sound is now within reach of virtually anyone.
“At Soyuz, we’re always striving to create products that are useful to people. Our microphones are handmade and as such, quite expensive. Even our most affordable LDC, The Bomblet, is out of range for most recording enthusiasts. So we wanted to create something that could work with some very common gear like the SM58 and an Apollo or Focusrite to give people a way of getting some thickness, depth and personality into a chain that normally might not have it. We wanted The Launcher to be like a little piece of a classic analog board, but at a price point that would be within the range of almost anyone.”
The Soyuz Launcher Specifications
Frequency Range: 10 Hz – 20,000 Hz (-1 dB)
Gain: 26 dB (load >1kOhms)
Max output level: 8.3 dBV (2.6 V)
Output noise level: 8 μV (JIS-A)
Powering: 48 Volts according to IEC 61938
Electrical impedance: 1k Ohms
Recommended load impedance: 1k Ohms
Current consumption: 5.0 mA
Connectivity: 3-pin male/female XLR connector
Weight: 0.9 lb (410 grams)
Dimensions: 44 x 21 x 19 in (111 x 53 x 48 cm)
Available October 15th, Worldwide
Price: $199 USD
For more information: soyuzmicrophones.com/launcher.
