Church Microphones

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Has anyone had any experience with church audio microphones?
I have just heard about them and was just wondering.
I found info online but I'm looking for a little hands on feed back about them.



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Note that Chris' stuff is built for plug-in power inputs for portable recorders. He uses good capsules, so other than that there's no reason they shouldn't work well.
 
moresound said:
Has anyone had any experience with church audio microphones? I have just heard about them and was just wondering. I found info online but I'm looking for a little hands on feed back about them.
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If you're talking about the Stanley Church MGM U47-type mics, in 1954, Stanley bought enough parts from Neumann to build about 200 of them for MGM, however, the exact quantity of completed mics is unknown.

I believe less than 50 of the original mics exist today, although several companies are now producing their own version of the "Church mic".
 
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moresound said:
Has anyone had any experience with church audio microphones?
I have just heard about them and was just wondering.
I found info online but I'm looking for a little hands on feed back about them.
:cool:
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I didn't know they had special mikes for churches.
Ours just uses MXL 990s, and an MXL cube.
 
The mics are powered by faith. Results are optional, as long as you believe it was great, it was.

(j/k)

I think the OP meant church audio. i.e. Chris (or whomever). Meant for stealth afaik. desensiti-whatever normal (high SPL). So if you want mics on the brim of your cap / glasses and need something small, they should be okay. archive.org probably has a lot of samples of them in action. CA-11 / CA-14 / ??? Never used them myself. Only recently heard of them myself. And probably making a lot of assumptions as well. Great for that light / small / portable / stealth / stuff....... Or I could be wrong.
 
Harvey Gerst said:
If you're talking about the Stanley Church MGM U47-type mics, in 1954, Stanley bought enough parts from Neumann to build about 200 of them for MGM, however, the exact quantity of completed mics is unknown.

I believe less than 50 of the original mics exist today, although several companies are now producing their own version of the "Church mic".
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Harvey,Tell me a little bit more of the originals. Then about the the new versions and the companies.



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moresound said:
Has anyone had any experience with church audio microphones?
I have just heard about them and was just wondering.
I found info online but I'm looking for a little hands on feed back about them.
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Hey Moresound,

I don't have my old computer HD hooked up so I don't remember and cannot give you details as for the transformers they used, however, from top of my head, the Church mics used 5751 tube, and local feedback around the transformer, that is, instead of hooking up the lower leg to the ground, they connected it to cathode. Then the blocking capacitor was connected not to the anode, but to the cathode junction. Neat, but had a very specific clean sound. From what I remember, I actually had this topology covered in my TNC 6082 thread. Check it out.

Best, M
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I believe the oP is referring to Chris Church, the Canadian who makes the mics and sells at great prices.
ca14 omnis
ca14 cards
st9100 is a pre-amp

I use them for live music recording and I'm thoroughly pleased with them. Go to the live music archive and search for them on it.
 
My bad; apparently, moresound was talking about Chris Church's mics, not the older Neumann/Stanley Church mics.

I don't see much difference between Chris Church's mics, and the MSH mics, except the Church mics are more expensive.
 
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