Ribbon mic recommended reading

These recommendations from Marik are from a long, old thread. I ‘m posting them here so this info will be easy to find if searched.

“I would recommend some books on ribbons I was able to find:

"RCA Microphones" by Harry Olson--very scarce, buried in math, but excellent.

"Ribbon microphones" by Gayford

There are good chapters on ribbons in following books:

"Elements of Acoustical Engineering" by Harry Olson.

"Microphone Engineering Handbook" by Gayford--includes detailed explanation of Coles 4038 and some info on Beyer's.

"Electroacoustics" by Gayford--can be found for cheaper, but if you have the above book, don't worry.

"Microphones" by Robertson--excellent book--a must, if you can find it.

"Microphones" BBC training manual--very expensive and scarce. Don't worry if you have Robertson.

Check your local or University libraries. You may find some of them there.

Also, these sites have a lot of info and close-ups of RCA ribbons:

http://www.k-bay106.com/doc.htm

http://www.coutant.org/contents.html

And don't forget BBC monograph.

BBC Monograph

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/archive/pdffiles/monographs/bbc_monograph_04.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/archive/pdffiles/monographs/bbc_monograph_38.pdf

I have a few things here, including part of BBC stuff, my copy seems to be missing the part about no electronic reproduction without written consent.

http://www.sdiy.org/oid/mics.html#diyribbons