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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: coop on September 27, 2010, 04:56:55 PM

Title: I love new old stock
Post by: coop on September 27, 2010, 04:56:55 PM

I have been looking for this mic for over a decade.  I would have been happy with a not too beaten-up used one, but i found this new old stock!  It is a Realistic 33-1085 back electret-condenser stereo mic.  The capsules rotate so it can be run horizontal or vertical, powered by a single AA or two 6v r544 batteries for wider dynamic range and high SPL environments.  My friend had one in college, and i was able to borrow it now and then.  It sounded good with a D5, and could be stealthed with little effort.  He made some listenable tapes of the 83 Hartford shows and a few Jerry Band.  I can't wait to use it!

Title: Re: I love new old stock
Post by: SmokinJoe on September 27, 2010, 05:25:14 PM

I had one of those I bought at a yard sale (not our yard sale... one along side the road) for about $10, in good shape.  I thought it sounded OK at the time.

I used to record my friend's bar band.  That mic > Technics living room cassette deck, and eventually I went digital.... that mic > same cassette deck > line in to a computer sound card.

Title: Re: I love new old stock
Post by: dgodwin on September 27, 2010, 05:40:14 PM

nice. 

Title: Re: I love new old stock
Post by: runonce on September 27, 2010, 09:26:30 PM

Got one too!

I think I have every Realistic Stereo Mic.

I also have the coveted aluminum Realistic Stereo Mic Bar...I've only ever seen one of these...nice piece.

A lot of analog era tapers got started with the RS stuff...

Title: Re: I love new old stock
Post by: twatts (pants are so over-rated...) on September 27, 2010, 10:57:05 PM

Rat Shack had some good stuff back in the day... 

Terry

Title: Re: I love new old stock
Post by: Church-Audio on September 28, 2010, 12:22:58 AM

Many of the old Radio shack mics were made by Audio Technica or Shure.