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No, it doesn't include all innovations - but it's a pretty nice walk through microphone history. I wouldn't be surprised if all of the models in the article are owned by the author - he writes an interesting piece fairly regularly on some of his finds and repairs. http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/through_the_years_a_look_at_notable_microphone_developments/liveI have a personal history using several of the models in the article. Probably the one I've 'ab-used' (not misused) the most is the Audio Technica Unipoint series. The churches where I've done live sound in MI and in CO both had some flavors of these mics - particularly those that are designed to be suspended over choirs. Since they are so small, you can get them into places where they weren't intentionally designed to be used. They do make a plastic mic-stand holder for them, and with that arrangement, I've stereo-mic'ed a grand piano on the inside, with the lid nearly shut with pretty decent success. We also will use them to discretely mic the Djembe drum sound port that we use at church. The only caution is that some of them are pretty sensitive in an omni style pattern and you need to be careful of how close you get to any speakers/monitors (true for any mic, but particularly so with these). Maybe the article will only be interesting to live sound nerds, I don't know. My list from the article: Shure SM57 and 58, including the 57 with the foam toppers as vocal mics. Countryman E6 Shure 55s Sennheiser MD421 (I 'borrowed' this one for about 5 years from church when they said they had no need for it. When we moved to CO, I gave it back - has a really cool variable high pass filter on it) AT Unipoint series, several models To me, the biggest group of mics missing from the article are the PZM style mics; lots of interesting ways to 'ab-use' those as well. When I had a weekend gig as a sound guy for a touring choir in the late 80's, we would tape one of those to the inside lid of whatever piano the church/school had. We also carried around a roughly 2'x2' sheet of plexiglass that we would tape one of those PZM in the middle and mic a small brass section that we would sequester away in one of the classrooms if they were too loud to blow over the choir in the particular room. Remember, high-schoolers we were. Sometimes easier to control the sound as a 'conductor' at the board than to adjust to each room (we had about an hour to setup, a couple hours to rehearse, an hour for the concert, and an hour to get out of dodge; all in a GMC 4104 buss. Fact of the matter is, you can press one of the AT Unipoint models, designed for flying, into a PZM like service by surface mounting it on a big flat plate. In fact, if I had to choose two mics to do any gig I would pick the SM58 and a bevy of those little AT jobs. I'm down to 3 mics for home use, and the one I got for free is the one that is becoming my favorite, my EV PL80a. It's a dynamic handheld, with pretty hot output and dang if it doesn't beat out my CAD M177 LDC for quite a bit of home recording use. The only other mic I have at home now is a lowly Samson SM58 knockoff that is actually one of those USB mics - it has an XLR connector on it as well. I bought it at the big Target store in Minneapolis on a clearance shelf - that mic and a set of cheap over-the-ear cans was something like $38. I unpackaged it in the hotel room and found room in the suitcase to take it, it's mounting stand, and the cans home. It actually sounds pretty decent. I sold a Cascade FatHead II ribbon mic, because I just didn't seem to find the need for it. I have one other mic at home but rarely use it - it's a 70s era TEAC desktop mic that just doesn't have any feature about it that makes me haul it out. Given to me by someone that knew that I liked to try out different mics. -Scott
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When I was young, dumb, and …well (broke) and actually had a really decent voice (no longer) for rock/blues our bass player and I shared a single "Green Bullet" for harmonica and our vocals. That's what we had, that's what we used - and it was inserted into one of our guitar amp channels (we didn't play in places that had house PA's let alone mixers).
Only the drummer was left out - and he only drummed anyway (drummer jokes aside, he was good and kept time like a metronome, I think he plays with a jazz combo somewhere on the left coast now a days).
He does that while I sit in my "studio" and am "great in my own mind" and relive yesteryear!
In any case, wish I still had that mic.!
Larry
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