Manual

BH Series Microphones Owners Manual

The Golden Drop Capsule (GDC)

One of the most important components in every microphone is the capsule,

its design and how it transforms the reproduced sound in to electric energy,

giving a soul to your recording.

Golden Drop technology is Innovative capsules diaphragm sputtering

method, where a lot of tiny and different sized golden dots are systematically

sputtered on the capsules diaphragm. It is invention of Juris Zarins and is

applied to most of JZ Microphones products.

Advantages of Golden Drop technology

With applied Golden Drop technology, capsules diaphragm is lighter there-

fore it moves and gets to its default position faster than the same capsules

diaphragm without Golden Drop technology, imagine handling the truck

compared to sports car, in other words lighter diaphragm can detect and

deliver much faster changes in musical content.

It gives more clarity, precision, less colorations and distortions in frequency

response. When applied, Golden Drop technology can improve the sonic char-

acteristics of any type of ordinary capsule giving more realistic picture of your

recording.

BH Series microphones use 2 types of GDC

1. Single large diaphragm 27 mm GDC (GDC1)

GDC1 is single large diaphragm Golden Drop microphone capsule.

GDC1 is applied only to our ﬁ xed cardioid BH2 and BH3 microphones.

2. Two separate and back to back placed large diaphragms 27mm

GDC (GDC2)

GDC2 is two separate and back to back placed single large diaphragm Golden

Drop microphone capsules combination.

Innovative GDC2 was developed for our ﬂ agship BH series microphones to have

polar pattern options, where unwanted interaction between both diaphragms

is maximally reduced (due to air gap between the capsules) to have improved

polar pattern response, plus has all advantages from GDC diaphragm sputter-

ing technology to deliver the captured sound ﬁ eld in more accurate way.

GDC2 is not working in cardioid polar pattern mode. Only frontal

capsule is working in cardioid mode.

GDC2 is applied only to our multi-pattern BH1s and BH1 microphones.