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

[rock soderstrom]

Continuing, here's a Bob Dylan special to mark the weekend.

In the first video, there are four(!) microphones at the start, can anyone explain what we're seeing?


...and as an extra bonus, a microphone with a very striking design. Does anyone know it?

 

[Khron]

...and as an extra bonus, a microphone with a very striking design. Does anyone know it?

EV 664, i believe?

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The shockmounted one might be a D12 (or variant thereof), but no idea about the rest...

 

[rock soderstrom]

EV 664, i believe?

I think you're right again! How did you find it so quickly? Did you know it beforehand? Edit: But it seems to be a version without the characteristic microphone "foot" (with the switch etc)

https://www.coutant.org/ev664/index.html

The shockmounted one might be a D12 (or variant thereof), but no idea about the rest...

That's what I thought at first, but there were a lot of microphones in this design and this festival was in the States, so I'm guessing a US product? The shockmount is really strange...

 

[Khron]

I think you're right again! How did you find it so quickly? Did you know it beforehand?

I was aware of it, and that it was an EV; just wasn't sure which 6xx model it was

The shockmount is really strange...

D25 perhaps? Thank you, google image search (despite looking for "akg d12 shockmount")...

https://www.vintagemicworld.com/html/Mic of the month November.html

 

[rock soderstrom]

D25 perhaps? Thank you, google image search (despite looking for "akg d12 shockmount")...

Right again, Sherlock! I have to admit, I didn't know the D25, and this is the first time I've seen this striking shock mount!

 

[rock soderstrom]

I was aware of it, and that it was an EV; just wasn't sure which 6xx model it was

You were close, but it is a 666 (diabolic microphone)

https://coutant.org/666r/index.html

 

[Walrus]

In a Shure mic clip and base.

 

[panman]

Continuing, here's a Bob Dylan special to mark the weekend.

In the first video, there are four(!) microphones at the start, can anyone explain what we're seeing?


...and as an extra bonus, a microphone with a very striking design. Does anyone know it?

The two wrapped in foam are Neumann Km56:s. The side-address is the first giveaway and from 1:50 to 2:59 the pattern-switch ring is visible. The "strange" is indeed AKG D25. The one in the middle is not enough exposed and there are too many possibilities for it, e.g many Beyer-and Schoeps-models would fit that size, that would exclude neumann Km 54 and all of that size.

 

[tomas.borgstrom]

AKG D25 can be seen in recording photos of the Beatles and Paul Mccartney. It’s also on the front of this very cool turkish psychadelic album from 1976.

 

[rock soderstrom]

The two wrapped in foam are Neumann Km56:s. The side-address is the first giveaway and from 1:50 to 2:59 the pattern-switch ring is visible.

Thanks panman, I think you are right.

Neumann KM56 with pop screen:


One year later, same Festival. Bob is now more serious and electrified...some folks doesn't like it

 

[MicMan]

My D25 - like a D12, but with that elastic'n'steel mount, and a variable output-matching black knob - came from Shepperton (film) Studios (..or was it Pinewood? ..I can't remember).

These were used extensively as boom mics in film and BBC TV studios. The bass roll-off removed the wheeled boom-crane rumbles, and the twisting and aiming noises as it was swivelled on the end of the mic crane to point at the talent ..it's a cardioid, of course.

Sounds good, even today! It's a dynamic, of course, so doesn't pick up much top, but then black-&-white (or grey-on-grey) British 405-line TV didn't deliver much top anyway, and there was always a hiss from old mono optical film soundtracks which disguised that, so it really didn't matter back then.

 

[MicMaven]

AKG D25 can be seen in recording photos of the Beatles and Paul Mccartney. It’s also on the front of this very cool turkish psychadelic album from 1976.

Headphone Spotting Sidebar -- Boy. That takes me back a long way!

I owned a pair of the white PIONEER SE-50 headphones she is wearing! After those, I owned a pair of nearly indestructible 24 oz! heavy duty heavy weight KOSS PRO/4AA cans, which I eventually wired to my car stereo for long drives to and from court houses around the state. In a fit of nostalgia, I purchased another pair of the Pro/4AA a few years ago, and realized they really sound bad! Go figure. (Sniff, sniff, nostalgic emotional sigh) . . . James