Anybody recognizes this mic?

abbey road d enfer · 2024-12-02T00:31:50-0500

Title says it all.
From a footage of CCR
Seems like two different mics are used in it.

Khron · 2024-12-02T00:42:57-0500

I thought we had a thread for this kind of stuff already?

Kinda-sorta looks like a Unidyne 546, but dark / black..? The glossy black rear end of that looks like the 57's foam windscreen, but...

k brown · 2024-12-02T00:56:00-0500

Khron said:
I thought we had a thread for this kind of stuff already?

Kinda-sorta looks like a Unidyne 546, but dark / black..? The glossy black rear end of that looks like the 57's foam windscreen, but...

Indeed looks like one of the SM57 predecessors; SM56 probably (they were black, and sold as late as 1977).

Can't tell what the second mic is - almost looks like a condenser of some sort.

Bones Howe was a big user of the 546 (and the '57).
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/bones-howe-tom-waits

Here's a setup sheet for Tom Waits' 'Nighthawks at the Diner' (1975):

abbey road d enfer · 2024-12-02T01:45:43-0500

Khron said:
Kinda-sorta looks like a Unidyne 546, but dark / black..?

Didn't know it existed. Haven't seen the option in any catalogue.

Khron said:
The glossy black rear end of that looks like the 57's foam windscreen, but...

Yes, typical A2WS.

abbey road d enfer · 2024-12-02T01:48:23-0500

k brown said:
Indeed looks like one of the SM57 predecessors; SM56 probably (they were black, and sold as late as 1977).

OK, mystery solved.

k brown said:
Can't tell what the second mic is - almost looks like a condenser of some sort.

Agree. they all look the same.

k brown said:
Bones Howe was a big user of the 546 (and the '57).
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/bones-howe-tom-waits

Here's a setup sheet for Tom Waits' 'Nighthawks at the Diner' (1975):

Thanks.