Topic: My buddys vintage RCA mic and vintage JBL speaker collection...

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

Pretty damn cool...  I like the NBC mic up front...  That thing is old-old school!

Thanks for sharing!

Terry

[rokpunk]

to answer the question about the crazy looking mic with all the tubes, here's some info:



It's an RCA MI-10006A (made in 1960)

[anodyne33]

Looks more like a sci-fi torture device.

[rokpunk]

Looks more like a sci-fi torture device.

depends where you put it.

[Gutbucket]

A great photo of an RCA MI-10006A with case, windscreens and manual-
http://www.silviaclassics.com/gallery/image.php?num=127

So it's an early shotgun (in this case gatling gun) 'ultradirectional' microphone.  I bet the individual lengths of the tubes in that funky attachment correspond to the slots along the length of the interference tube of a modern shotgun mic.  Anyone know when the typical slotted single tube shotgun design was developed?

[mfrench]

where does the laser ray come out from?

[rokpunk]

he uses these mics, not often, but once in a while. i know he has made ambient recordings using a pair of his 77's before. he's not a taper dork...more of a vintage mic and vintage car dork.

[L Ron Hoover]

I think this guy may have the most. It's too bad none of the links to the pictures work anymore.

http://www.sssmilwaukee.com/Microphone%20Museum.html

I really need to check this place out one of these days. I drive right past it all the time when heading to the lake to go fishing.

Here's another article.

http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/articles/bob-paquettes-microphone-museum,981/

[rokpunk]

I think this guy may have the most. It's too bad none of the links to the pictures work anymore.

http://www.sssmilwaukee.com/Microphone%20Museum.html

I really need to check this place out one of these days. I drive right past it all the time when heading to the lake to go fishing.

Here's another article.

http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/articles/bob-paquettes-microphone-museum,981/

yeah, my friend is an RCA only collector, not a vintage mic collector. he got into RCA's because they were made in new jersey (for use in nyc on tv, mostly) which is close to where we live. he became friends with some of the older techs there, and often went up there and went mic hunting.

[rokpunk]

THIS is the biggest RCA collection in the world. It's my friends friend, and fellow RCA collector, Jim Webb. Simply amazing.

[sparkey]

Great pics, thanks for sharing y'all.  I recall a friend of mine saying that a client of his had like 6 pairs of large Diaphram RCA mics new in the box.  They were worth something silly, like $20K a pair.  That sound right?

THIS is the biggest RCA collection in the world. It's my friends friend, and fellow RCA collector, Jim Webb. Simply amazing.

[mfrench]

there was a great picture in Popular Science mag (?) a long time back, mid 50's era, maybe even before that (a found on internet thing).
It showed a couple of G-Men agents (FBI) secreted away in a building aiming the *large single tube shotgun mic at some gangsters from behind a curtain, recording what they were saying. stealth stylin'.

* If not that mic, then one very similar to it - a huge shotgun mic.

[Frequincy]

God this mic porn is turning me on!