Strange microphone - Google search leads nowhere!

[RCTM]

Hi, I've go this microphone that's called (according to the text around the top) an "Sound Research Uni-Directional Microphone DM-4500 IMP" and it has a strange four-pin hookup on the end that I've never seen before.
Any ideas as to what it is, how much it's worth, and what type of plug I'd need to hook it up?
Thanks.

[arcaxis]

Closest I can come to it right now is this... DM-4500 , but it's a cardioid and XLR connector. Does it look like this one? Guess you don't have enough posts yet to post a pic?

Connector look like this...?
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/4/6...66778110_o.jpg

or this....
http://rocky.digikey.com/weblib/CUI%...otos/SD-40.jpg

And is there a switch on the mic?

[RCTM]

Nope. This is silver with a flat end (not spherical), and it has an on-off switch on the side.
Here are two images; one of the microphone and one of the plug on the end.
i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w433/jlord_97/HPIM1979_zps6efe7a00.jpg
i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w433/jlord_97/HPIM1987_zpse042dc7f.jpg

[Phantom Piggy]

http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6efe7a00.jpg
http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/...pse042dc7f.jpg

There we go

[xaudia]

Here you go...

XLR Connectors :: Interconnects :: Electronic Parts :: Banzai Music GmbH

looks like you need one of these...

Microphone Jack 4-pin :: XLR Connectors :: Interconnects :: Electronic Parts :: Banzai Music GmbH
Microphone Plug 4-pin :: XLR Connectors :: Interconnects :: Electronic Parts :: Banzai Music GmbH

These are available in 2, 3, 4 and 8 pin formats. I think they were popular on radio ham / CB radio mics. Our local Maplins / Radio shack stocks these in the UK.

Cheers

Stewart

[Mr Clean]

Looks like an old Realistik Mic that you could get from Tandy in the UK in the 90's. Generic made Mic, branded by whatever company sells them. I could be wrong but I doubt it is worth anything.

[DarrenVocal]

I could be wrong but I doubt it is worth anything.

Hmm, so you mean its dirt cheap now but is extremely hard to find? Doesn't sounds like its worth to get.

[gecko zzed]

Looks like an old Realistik Mic that you could get from Tandy in the UK in the 90's. Generic made Mic, branded by whatever company sells them. I could be wrong but I doubt it is worth anything.

Possibly. However, I'm thinking that XLR connectors would have been more likely in the nineties. I'm thinking it's a lot older than that.

[Mr Clean]

Possibly. However, I'm thinking that XLR connectors would have been more likely in the nineties. I'm thinking it's a lot older than that.

XLR were more popular but that store sold loads of mics with the old 4 Pin Screw Down Connector. I used to have 2 of them. Dreadful mics. Looked nothing like that one in the pics though. Maybe I'm wrong and it is older, but the Realistik cheap mics came in all shapes and sizes and design, with names like that to make them look better.

[John Willett]

It looks like an old cheapo Japanese / Taiwanese microphone from the 1960's.

Possibly dual impedance.

Worth zero - and not really worth using, even.