Wasaphone MKII

Meet the Wasaphone MKII, an upgraded version of the original Wasaphone I. With refined design, the Wasaphone MKII boasts sturdier construction and reduced housing noise. The MKII also features our attractive and convenient signature brass bracket for attaching to standard microphone stands.

The MKII’s ability to lace your live or studio performance with something special has been lauded by musicians and industry professionals far and wide:

“It is like using a real Instamatic camera, as opposed to using a filter on Instagram. You can come close to the effect in other ways, but by using the Wasaphone you’re likely to get more creative performances, not just creative results. In the studio, the ability to get to the creative space quickly is invaluable, and the Wasaphone MKII lets us do exactly that.” — Music Tech Magazine, February 2015

Spec:

Frequency Range:200Hz - 5kHz
Type: Cardioid
Dimensions: 88mm x 62mm
Sensitivity 2.5mV/Pa/1kHz
Output impedance 200Ω

Mounts onto all standard microphone stands via the brass bracket provided.

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The list of studios, producers, engineers and musicians using our microphones is extensive and ever-growing - here are a few names you might recognise:

Abbey Road Studios

Real World Studios (Owned by Peter Gabriel)

Steve Levine - Grammy and Brit Award-winning producer (the Clash, Beach Boys, XTC)

Tom Dalgety - Music Producers Guild Breakthrough Producer of the Year 2015 (Royal Blood, Opeth, Turbowolf, Killing Joke)

John Parish - Mercury Prize-winning musician and producer (PJ Harvey, Anna Calvi)

Portishead - Mercury Prize-winning band and architects of the trip-hop genre

Giant Sand - critically-acclaimed band

Reviews

"Bags of character. Beautifully hand made...[the Maroc is] a great go-to mic for lo-fi effects." Ask Audio Magazine

"Steeped in vintage tones...by using the Wasaphone you're likely to get more creative performances, not just creative results." Music Tech Magazine

"If you're looking for an inexpensive transducer with serious personality and character, this is the mic for you." Electronic Musician

"Cool, authentic Lo-Fi weirdness." Tom Dalgety, MPG Breakthrough Producer of the Year 2015

"For me, your mics add a unique colour to a source - better than a plug in effect, plus you can record a performance with the actual sound and that's a very creative way for
many musicians." Steve Levine, Grammy-winning Producer

"I always put it [MKII] in my mic box now when I’m going places – it’s very, very cool." Adrian Utley, Portishead

"A lot of the time, if you try to give an old quality to things it can end up tinny, but the Big Boy  MKII gives the piano a nice round, old sound." Steve Lynch, Stellar Sound

"I'm always in search of the ultimate trashy mic to blend in with a kit sound, and it's great to finally have a mic that gives me exactly what i'm looking for straight out of the box!" Brendan Davies, Producer/Engineer