Comments on: Vintage Microphones are Hot.

Vintage Microphones are Hot.

th3ph17 — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:42:10 -0800

Amazing vintage microphones. Stumbled into this site looking for reference photos...what I found instead was detailed technical specs, vintage advertisements, old time photos, bios of audio pioneers....and lots of microphone tech-pr0n photos. Beautiful. This guy knows more about this than I will probably ever know about Anything. This page explains why it was built...and I think it is a great example of why the web works as a brainfood potluck.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:46:11 -0800

Cooool, good link! Thanks!

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:01:11 -0800

Excellent site, thanks! Those old mikes are really works of art This company takes that retro-styling and updates it nicely.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:30:12 -0800

Got a special treat in the pages about KFI and its equipment, since I was there in the pre-Rush late '70s, answering the phones for talk shows and self-promoting myself into becoming the caller all the hosts loved to put on Hold. (No, I never met Earle C. Anthony, and yes, KFI was a 'Clear Channel' station decades before Clear Channel Corp.ever existed.)

By: kurtosis

kurtosis — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:27:25 -0800

Unfortunately, the page misses the greatest mic ever built, the U-47. Your mileage may vary on that last claim.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:32:48 -0800

*cough* was linked from the U-87 page.

By: kurtosis

kurtosis — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:38:55 -0800

Bah, I didn't even look, I saw it missing from the contents page and assumed the worst. My fault.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:43:03 -0800

*sigh* MetaFried.

By: Geo

Geo — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:47:23 -0800

Unfortunately, the link is bandwidthed out. Some of my favorites include the water cooled microphone and this portable one made from a solid block of marble.