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The Cactus delivers a commanding, intimate presence with larger-than-life detail that is reminiscent of the world’s finest and most well respected vintage designs.
At a distance, the Cactus’ B7 capsule delivers every nuance in the room, with finely focused resolution and clear, musical frequency response to the extremes of the audible spectrum.
Up close, with its detailed highs and smooth midrange, the nine-pattern Cactus excels at delivering a vocal or solo track right to the front of the mix. The amplifier is a transformer-balanced single vacuum tube sub-miniature pentode in a triode mode, along with the highest quality hand-selected electronic components to insure absolute minimum noise and distortion.
Blue Microphones, based in Westlake, California, was founded in 1995 in response to the (then) emerging digital audio recording industry. With digital audio came a completely new set of tech specs including increased bandwith and extended frequency response and dynamic range that not all mics, especially vintage designs, were fully capable of utilizing.
The founders at Blue combined their years of experience repairing and modifying classic microphones with their first-hand knowledge of the modern digital recording paradigm to create truly modern microphones that retain the sought-after characteristics of classic mics, and that perform to today’s standards of digital audio recording and processing.
Each Blue Microphone has a proprietary, specially designed capsule meant to perform in a specific way, hence all the different models. From classic tube condensers to USB mics with switchable polar patters, Blue has taken microphone design into the digital realm with unparalleled success.
At a distance, the Cactus’ B7 capsule delivers every nuance in the room, with finely focused resolution and clear, musical frequency response to the extremes of the audible spectrum.
Up close, with its detailed highs and smooth midrange, the nine-pattern Cactus excels at delivering a vocal or solo track right to the front of the mix. The amplifier is a transformer-balanced single vacuum tube sub-miniature pentode in a triode mode, along with the highest quality hand-selected electronic components to insure absolute minimum noise and distortion.
About Blue
Blue Microphones, based in Westlake, California, was founded in 1995 in response to the (then) emerging digital audio recording industry. With digital audio came a completely new set of tech specs including increased bandwith and extended frequency response and dynamic range that not all mics, especially vintage designs, were fully capable of utilizing.
The founders at Blue combined their years of experience repairing and modifying classic microphones with their first-hand knowledge of the modern digital recording paradigm to create truly modern microphones that retain the sought-after characteristics of classic mics, and that perform to today’s standards of digital audio recording and processing.
Each Blue Microphone has a proprietary, specially designed capsule meant to perform in a specific way, hence all the different models. From classic tube condensers to USB mics with switchable polar patters, Blue has taken microphone design into the digital realm with unparalleled success.
Cactus:
| Transducer Type | Vacuum Tube Condenser |
| Polar Patterns | Multipattern (9) |
| Frequency Response | 20Hz - 20kHz |
| Sensitivity | 18.0 mV/Pa at 1kHz (1 Pa = 94 dB SPL) |
| Output Impedance | 50 Ω |
| Rated Load Impedance | Not less than 1kΩ |
| Maximum SPL | 134 dB SPL (2.5kΩ, 0.5% THD) |
| S/N Ratio | 84.0 dB-A (IEC 651) |
| Noise Level | 10.0 dB-A (IEC 651) |
| Dynamic Range | 124 dB (@ 2.5kΩ) |
| Power Requirement | Cactus Power Supply Unit 115/230 VAC, 50/60 Hz |
| Weight | 800g |
| Dimensions | 235mm x 50mm x 30mm |
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