Members average number of mics and a list...

How many mics do you own?

  • 1

    Votes: 127 7.8%

  • 2

    Votes: 155 9.5%

  • 3-5

    Votes: 408 24.9%

  • 6-7

    Votes: 221 13.5%

  • 8-12

    Votes: 326 19.9%

  • 13 or over

    Votes: 399 24.4%
  • Total voters
    1,636
Updated mic list

Posted in this a wee while ago with my list, now I have a few more...


Shure

SM58 x4
Beta 58A x1
SM57 x1
SM27 x1

c606 x1 (For talkback!)

Neumann
TLM 102 x1

sE Electronics
X1-R x1

Rode
NT1a (With regret, wish I got an sE X1 instead) x1

Plus all the cheap mics, my wireless SM58, Wireless sennheisers (e865 equiv), Wireless dB mics too!
Next up on my list

Shure SM7b
another sE Electronics X1-R
This:
Award-winning microphone engineering from Michael Joly
and This:
Award-winning microphone engineering from Michael Joly
 
AKG C214
Audio-Technica AT 4051a
Audio-Technica ATM 450
Shure Beta 57a (2)
Studio Projects C4 (matched pair)

This gives me a good LDC mic for recording vocals or anything else that might benefit, a mix of SDCs, including a matched pair I've used for a lot of different chamber music configurations, plus a pair of dynamic mics that work for live vocals and guitar amp use, but have also been used for recording a piano and as "matched" outside mics (to cover a larger ensemble) when using the C4s in an XY in the center.

I don't see me needing anything else for a long time, honestly.

Not counted: a Zoom H2 used frequently for "house" recording and an old Sony stereo mic that still can get put on a boom and plugged in to the camcorder as the paranoid backup/failsafe...
 
Things are getting slightly out of hand here...

Valve Condenser Microphones
AKG C28a vintage tube mic with CK28 capsule
Big Al - Unknown vintage bottle mic
Lomo 19a9 (Soviet valve mic)
Neumann Gefell UM57 (x2)
Neumann Gefell CMV551 with M55k and UM71 capsules
Gefell MV582. with M62 cardioid capsule
Recard (Old French valve mic, 1960s)
Reissmann MR50 (x2) & MR51 (x2) valve mics
Teladi K120 tube mics (pair) & K43 bottle mic
Tesla tube microphone
Thiele M5 multi pattern tube mic
Thiele M4 (three!) - rebuilt & serviced
Syncron Fairchild AU7A (tube modified)
Wetzel German tube mic, 1950s
Xaudia U47 clone with Thiersch M7 capsule and EF12k tube
Unknown West German tube mic - nice!

FET Condenser Microphones
AKG C451 with CK1 capsule (x2)
AKG C422 (stereo C414)
AKG C418 (x2) & C518 clip mics for drums
BLUE Dragonfly & Omni Mouse
FiCord 1200
Josephson C720 dual diaphragm condenser - excellent!
Microtech Gefell M691 with UM70 multi-pattern capsule
Milab DC96b
MXL 603s
Oktava MK18
Oktava MK219
Neumann TLM49
Neumann KM74i & KM75i (x2)
Rode NT3 (x2)
Shure Beta 91 (boundary mic for kick drum)
Sony C38 & C48 (versatile multi-pattern mics)
Syncron Fairchild AU7A

Ribbon Microphones
Aiwa VM13, Aiwa VM15 (x2)
Altec 670A
Amperite (x2, classic oldies)
Beyerdynamic M260 (some)
Bang and Olufsen BM2 and BM3
Bruno Velotron (not quite a ribbon!)
Cadenza ribbon mics, some.
Crowley & Tripp Naked Eye Roswellite (x2) - indestructible ribbons!
ElectroVoice V1, V2, V2A & V3 Velocity ribbon mics
Film Industries M8
Framez ribbon mic
GEC 2370 and 2373 ribbon mics
Grampian GR2 M600 (x2)
LEM ribbon - very French, very old!
Lustraphone VR53
Magneti Marelli, Italian licensed RCA 74b copy.
Meazzi ribbon mic
Melodium 42B - huge French RCA44 style mic (x2)
Melodium RM6
Oktava ML11, ML17, ML19 & ML52
Philips velocity ribbon mic - very rare!
Reslo RV and RBL models (lots!)
RCA 74B
RCA 77DX
ST&C 4033
Tannoy ribbon mics x 2
Toshiba ribbon microphones x 3, Types B, C & F
Unknown Australian RCA 44 copy
Velocibel 36A
Zephyr 30RA

Dynamic Microphones
AKG D202 rocket mic
AKG D5
ElectroVoice RE20 (x2) & PL20 (classic for kick, bass, horns, vocals)
Electrovoice RE320
ElectroVoice 642 cardioline / shotgun mics. (x2)
Geloso Piezo mic (x2)
Lomo 82A5M
Milab D37
Shure SM57, SM58, 57 beta, 58 beta (several)
Sony FV300 (killer guitar amp mic)

Probably some more at the back of the cupboard....

Do I need therapy?
 
I gotta say I've cribbed schematics from xaudia. In fact I think I posted one in another thread...
 
Good stuff - that's why they are there.

I cribbed half of them from other places, or sketched them on the bench. Spread them around (and feel free to give us a link!).
 
Steenamaroo said:
LOL @ Stewart and Henry : Protecting the rest of the world from microphones. :)
Click to expand...

:P

It's like artists with paintbrushes!

You have to be careful with these little obsessions, y'know! I started off as a guitarist, setup up a small studio, started collecting the odd mic here and there, because they take up less space than guitars. Some years later I am ankle deep in ribbon mics, fixing them for a living, and have little time to play guitar or record.

Life is sweet!
 
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