Violet Design Flamingo Standard
Large-diaphragm tube condenser
Microphone$5,799Manufacturer list price
Specifications
- Type
- Microphone
- Description
- Large-diaphragm tube condenser
- Topology
- tube condenser
- Signal path
- Analog
- Channels
- 1
- Channel format
- mono
- Form factor
- Side-address studio body with external tube power supply, wooden box; 307mm length x 68mm max diameter, ~1300g
- Powered
- external dedicated tube PSU (6267 vacuum tube; mains powered)
- Drivers
- dual large diaphragm, ~26mm, VD67 capsule (gold-sputtered Mylar)
- Frequency response
- 20 Hz - 20 kHz
- Max SPL
- 134 dB
- Sensitivity
- 27 mV/Pa (per RecordingHacks.com)
- Polar pattern
- cardioid (fixed, unidirectional)
- Impedance (Ω)
- 200 (low impedance output, per RecordingHacks.com)
- Back design
- side-address
- Introduced
- 2007 (per RecordingHacks.com; not independently confirmed by manufacturer page)
- Country of manufacture
- Latvia
Details
Controls: none on mic body (fixed cardioid); PSU includes voltage ramp-up/output-mute protection and mains voltage select
I/O: Mic: multi-pin output to dedicated 6267-tube power supply; PSU: 1x XLR3M line output; AC mains input (100/120/220/240V)
Notes: FLAG: tube condenser (6267 tube), dual-diaphragm. FLAG -- IMPORTANT: same 2015 JZ Microphones takeover of the Flamingo series applies here (see Flamingo ME notes); current Violet Design status uncertain. FLAG: violet-design.com storefront's own spec table for this product page returned figures (100-ohm impedance, 26 mV/Pa) that are identical to the Flamingo Vintage listing scraped in the same pass -- evidence of cross-contaminated/cached storefront data; RecordingHacks.com's independently-sourced figures (200 ohms, 27 mV/Pa) were used instead. price_usd of $5,799 is RecordingHacks.com's stated launch-era MSRP (2007), not a confirmed current price; storefront separately lists EUR 3,192 (marked '-35%' off EUR 4,910) -- not used given reliability concerns.