On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:58:14 -0800, Tim Perry wrote
(in article <479dee5d$0$29974$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> no this is not my site, I just found it interesting.
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> http://www.coutant.org/12mics/
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Cool. I had a 44BX mike at one time (painted a matt brown color for early
TV
use. A ****ny mic would have burned-in the old iconoscopes used in those
days
causing a ghost image and a streak trail when the camera was moved away
from
it),. The mike sounded pretty good but didn't have much in the way of
highs
above about 10KHz. I sold it because I needed the dough at the time. I
wished I hadn't.
I'm surprised that he didn't mention the Telefunken ELA-M270 (made by
Neumann?) stereo mike. This famous mike has the two heads on the same mike
body and the top one rotates with respect to the lower one. With cardioid,
omni, and figure-of-eight patterns available, this fifties vintage big
capsule (35mm) mike is highly regarded and sell for a fortune (when you
can
find them). A new company called Telefunken USA is building an exact
replica
even down to being tube powered with an external power supply and even the
original luggage carrying case! They want US$16,000 for one of them!
I just bought a more modest replica from US microphone company Avantone
Their CK-40
<http://www.avantelectronics.com/CK-40%20STEREO%20FET%20MIC.htm>
is the same size as the Telefunken ELA-M270, looks just like it, and has
the
same size 35mm capsules, but is FET powered and will run with any standard
48
volt phantom supply. It sounds just fabulous with great bass response,
gorgeous, silken top end and the co-incident stereo image will make a
decent
set of stereo speakers disappear into the music. The imaging will give
goosebumbs. Also, if you use a mixer or mike pre-amp that has an
invert-able
channel, you can do true MS miking by pointing one capsule straight ahead
and
switching it to cardioid, and by rotating the other capsule by 90 degrees
and
switching it to figure-of-eight. By inverting the signal on the
figure-of-eight capsule and adjusting it's level relative to the cardioid
capsule, one can "electronically" vary the pick-up pattern from mono all
the
way to ~120 degrees stereo. MS stereo also images very well!
Best $650 I have ever spent!
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