Micspotting - the “do you recognize this mic?” thread

[rock soderstrom]

Here it is, and hope you enjoy:

Wow, that's a great video and a nice guy with a really cool job!

Great collection of mics!
lots of mic info in this video!

Hey, I got a Haun MBC 540 windscreen, too.


Great first post @mblindsey , welcome to groupdiy.com!

 

[MicMaven]

I came across a video of the guy that supplied historical mics for the movie, and I thought "that guy has one of the coolest jobs in the world!".

While the specific stories about the equipment are great fun, the best bit is the narrator's obvious, infectious enthusiasm for the gear, the task, and the whole gestalt of the process, plainly enjoying what he does. Not everyone manages to make a career of what he would do for nothing, just for the joy of doing it. Ironically, paradoxically, one tends to earn more doing what he enjoys doing - in contrast, while I earned plenty in my career, I rarely had fun and retired at the first opportunity.

Parenthetically, my friends and I used an EV 640 in my first ersatz rock "band" - playing in Tommy Cullen's basement. We were a basement band, not a garage band. We were too embarrassed to play in the garage where other kids could hear us better. That EV 640 was physically really BIG, and, fortunately, indestructible. / James

 

[k brown]

Okay, this time it's getting real historical - is the microphone in this legendary
“Oh Brother Where Art Thou” scene a movie prop or a real microphone?

Can anyone say anything about it?



PS: I did some googling but found nothing.

My guess is that it's either an intentionally silly-looking prop, or possibly a carbon mic.