Pierre Bensusan is one of the great fingerstyle guitar players of our time. Our friend Jamie Rosenberg, studio owner and Pierre's engineer, wanted to try our SF-24 phantom powered ribbon mic on Pierre, so we sent him a production prototype SF-24 a few months before they started shipping. Jamie sent us some photos and an MP3 after the session.

The guitar Pierre used was a prototype Kevin Ryan - Pierre Bensusan Model.Here are some of Jamie's thoughts after the recording:

"We had just finished up the "International Guitar Night" and I literally had 15 minutes to take some video (from which I got these stills) and record half a tune with the SF24 and some new Josephson E22's that I just bought. I didn't have time to move the mics around and experiment, but this recording is the SF24 (no Josephsons) through a Great River MP2NV with the impedance switch "in." I didn't have time to check out the mic with any other preamps. I've got a 2.5 db shelf at 6.3k on the SF24.

The vocal is a Brauner VM1 KHE set on "figure 8" through a Requisite Audio Pal Plus. Pierre sang and played this live. The whole thing was recorded to Pro Tools HD at 24/96 and then squeezed into an MP3 for your enjoyment.

I think if I had more time I would pull the mic farther away as there's quite a bit of proximity effect when close to the guitar (this recording was about a foot away).
We love the mic and I want one as soon as you can send me one!"

Thanks Jamie! Browse the pictures and be sure to check out the beautiful playing on this brief MP3.