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Title: What mic is this?
Post by: mandodon on August 10, 2019, 12:37:45 PM

Picks up everything really well. Think they are using room mics too? I don't see any in the long shot. https://www.youtube.com/v=wqWBth_rLgw

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: audBall on August 10, 2019, 01:12:36 PM

I couldn't get the above link to work, but I think this is it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWBth_rLgw

Not sure on the mic, though. 

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: jefflester on August 10, 2019, 02:45:05 PM

Screengrab from youtube

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: kindms on August 11, 2019, 08:56:11 AM

the black band at the bottom looks like rode but i dont see this specific mic on their website

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: morst on August 11, 2019, 01:29:52 PM

The video was posted by state of N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, so the mic may be part of the state's A/V gear.
Looks pretty old.

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: 0vu on August 15, 2019, 03:44:28 PM

It's a Neumann KMS84i

If you unscrew the basket, there's what looks like the top third of a KM84, with it's capsule inside the head of the mic.

It's getting on in age now but still a really nice vocal mic which also works on most things that a KM84 works on. The head basket changes the sound a bit from a KM84i but gives some useful blast protection. It's successor was the KMS140 which was also a good mic, replaced by the cheaper (and still current) KMS104. (The KMS105 is the hypercardioid version.)

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: morst on August 15, 2019, 06:27:05 PM

Quote from: 0vu on August 15, 2019, 03:44:28 PM

It's a Neumann KMS84i

Sweet info!
There are some good photos of one which was offered on Reverb.com
https://reverb.com/item/6959084-vintage-neumann-kms-84-i-very-similar-to-km84

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: daspyknows on August 18, 2019, 12:23:44 PM

KM84i's were nice mics.  Ran those with CHecht back in the day.

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: DSatz on August 19, 2019, 10:16:37 AM

If the gaffer's tape was covering a pair of slide switches, this is a KMS 84--otherwise it's a KMS 85 (an earlier, short-lived model that looked the same, apart from the switches and the variously-colored screens that were available for the 84).

Sorry I didn't recognize this sooner. It's "from my time" but not a model that I ever worked with.

--best regards

Title: Re: What mic is this?
Post by: anodyne33 on August 19, 2019, 12:02:08 PM

Quote from: daspyknows on August 18, 2019, 12:23:44 PM

KM84i's were nice mics.  Ran those with CHecht back in the day.

Motherfuck yes. I never used them personally for a 2tk live recording but in the studio those were monstrous on acoustic instruments.