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Author Topic: Online Microphone Museum Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-22-2005 06:53 PM                     For lovers of old equipment, this is a great site: Online Microphone Museum  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-23-2005 12:20 AM                     ..funny - the link's been suspended for excessive bandwidth usage. - Monte  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-23-2005 01:55 AM                        A victim of its own success, it would seem.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 02-23-2005 06:02 AM                     This is a great link and you can listen to the various microphones, too! A lot of these old mics command big bucks these days. I remember in the '60's using RCA Varacoustic mics for PA work and thought they were junk. Now they bring $400 at auction!!  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-23-2005 07:50 AM                     Monte-- I'm having NO trouble connecting to the link!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-23-2005 08:08 AM                     quote: http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/apr02/36200.asp?format=print Sorry guys but that virtual site is really pretty lame! Here is a story about a REAL microphone museum that I have had the pleasure of seeing several times in peson. This guy has so many famous mikes that its almost hard to take it all in. By famous I mean well known mics and mics that were used to broadcast famous events... such as the Hindenburg disaster mic and one of the mics that Hitler used for his speeches.... Well over a thousand total. It takes Bob several hours to show several people through them all..... I don't think Bob has a web site but he is generally open to giving people tours if you call him at the office a few days in advance..... Bob Paquettes Microphone Museum (Story) IN the picture is the original WLW mic that was used to feed the largest AM transmitter ever built.... a 500 kilowatter that operated up to about WW-2. Here is also an interesting link to a site about WLW's transmitter museum!! WLW Transmitter Site Mark  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-23-2005 10:25 AM                     It looks just like a Telefunken U-47! Neumann U-47  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-23-2005 10:56 AM                     There is an incredible CD available from Germany that I have called "Das Microphone". Its a compilatipon of recordings using modern digital recorders and old classic microphones starting with a pair of early 1920's Telefunkens and progressing foreword in microphine technology. These are full symphonic and chamber music groups. They all sound fantastic and its really amazing stuff to say the least! MArk  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 02-24-2005 06:00 AM                     Microphone technology was way ahead of recording technology back in the 30's and 40's. Evidence the fact that many recording engineers still use RCA 44's and RCA 77's (and other oldies) in modern day recordings.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-25-2005 12:27 AM                        This is the only mike to hook up to your cinema sound processor.  |  IP: Logged

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