sE Electronics
VR1
Ribbon · Figure-8 · 20–18,000 Hz
- The Voodoo passive ribbon: no phantom, no electronics, 230 g — the lightest ribbon here by a wide margin.
- Reaches 18 kHz, unusual for a passive ribbon, and the reason it gets used on overheads as well as cabs.
Frequency response
No response curve yet.
MicSense only draws a curve traced from a graph the manufacturer actually publishes — it never estimates one from the microphone’s class. sE Electronics publishes figures for the VR1 but no response graph, so the numbers are in the spec table below and the chart stays empty.
Polar pattern
Generated from the first-order directivity formula for figure-8. It illustrates the pattern type — it is not a measurement of this individual model.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | sE Electronics |
|---|---|
| Model | VR1 |
| Type | Ribbon |
| Form factor | Side-address |
| Polar pattern | Figure-8 |
| Frequency range | 20–18,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | 1.8 mV/Pa · -55.0 dBV/Pa |
| Max SPL | 135 dB SPL |
| Self-noise | 19 dB(A) |
| Impedance | 300 Ω (electrical) |
| Connector | XLR3M |
| Powering | None (dynamic) |
| Weight | 230 g |
| Price tier | Pro |
| Introduced | — |
Every figure above is from sE Electronics’s own published datasheet for this model — see the datasheet. A dash means the manufacturer does not publish that figure; it does not mean zero.
What it gets used for
- Guitar cab
- Horn / brass
- Overhead
MicSense tags microphones by the job on a live stage, not by studio category — so you can filter for “kick in” or “monitor vocal” instead of working backwards from “large-diaphragm condenser”.
Compare it against the alternatives.
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