Strange microphone - Google search leads nowhere!

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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.
 
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.
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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
 
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.
 
Mr Clean said:
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.
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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.
 
gecko zzed said:
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.
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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.
 
It looks like an old cheapo Japanese / Taiwanese microphone from the 1960's.

Possibly dual impedance.

Worth zero - and not really worth using, even.
 
Okay, thanks for the info. I'm going to try using it anyway to see if it's any good.
 
even some EV mics originally used connectors like that ...... the mere fact that it's a 4 pin connector doesn't automatically mean it's a POS.
 
RCTM said:
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.
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Well I just gotta ask you this, RCTM .....
Does this microphone have any weight at all to it, or does it feel light and cheap?
 
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