Topic: Milab - Pearl Micophones to file for bankruptcy

[goodcooker]

Mattias Stromberg - who was a member here for a while, not sure if he still has us on his radar - has announced that Milab/Pearl will be filing for bankruptcy. He's asking people for leads to a new work opportunity so I guess it's very real.

Bummer. Milab/Pearl made some very innovative products like their large rectangle diaphragm mics.

A few tapers have used the VM44 SD mics and the remote capsule version - the Link - over the years and I know one Oregon taper who uses a pair of the DC196 LD mics. Here's a Zero tape with the DC196 mics ceiling hung FOB in the Faulkner array with some MBHO KA300 in NOS mixed in. FOH sound by the taper's own Charlie Miller. - https://archive.org/details/zero2022-07-30.-AA-fob-MilabDC196-mbhoKA300/zero2022-07-30-set2-AA-fob-milabDC196-mbhoKA300-03.flac

[morst]

LC-25 was the go to vocal mic for Grateful Dead for many years, only being replaced by b&k 4011(?) when they went to in ear monitors in 1992


https://milabmic.blogspot.com/2009/08/grateful-dead.html

[goodcooker]

LC-25 was the go to vocal mic for Grateful Dead for many years, only being replaced by b&k 4011(?) when they went to in ear monitors in 1992


https://milabmic.blogspot.com/2009/08/grateful-dead.html

It's a great mic for vocals and other stuff like drums too. I used to have one and used it on snare more than any other mic.

[EmRR]

This makes me sad, they make such great and unique microphones.  There will be a big hole in the market if they are truly gone.