Paying tribute to the 1970’s drum kit of the same name, our Tequila Sunrise BoRbon arrives hot on the heals of last year’s ‘Ghost’. The principle here is the same - a naked microphone, featuring a transparent body, allowing the internal workings of the microphone to remain visible. These are fully functional microphones, working on exactly the same principle as our standard BoRbon.
Feedback regarding the Ghosts was just too good for us to consign them to the history books, but we wanted to do something a little different this time.
“These Ghosts are not just sensitive, not just proper, full range sensitive, but they pick out high frequency detail like I’ve never heard from a ribbon before, without sounding ‘forced’…. No hype, no dressing up, just plain master-craftsmanship. And a joy to hear.”
The Tequila Sunrise BoRbon features transparent layers of red, orange and yellow acrylic bodywork, with a transformer-balanced output and a standard XLR socket. The clear BoRbons have a slightly increased bass response due to the nature of their construction. The pickup pattern is a slightly forward-offset figure-8 and the output impedance is 250 ohms.
Once again, we are doing a limited run of Tequila Sunrise BoRbon stereo sets (just 20 sets in total), which are available to pre-order now.
I bet you woke up this morning wondering what a 125 year old guitar sounds like through a 100 year old BT-H carbon microphone. The answer is pretty fecking good. Head on over to the collection at MoMics.org
#vintagemics #extinctaudio #microphonemuseum
A quick reminder that we have lots of obscure spare parts for vintage mics, including these brass yokes and mount bits for Melodium and RCA ribbon mics. We often make or commission parts that can't be found elsewhere, even if it makes no commercial sense!
Lots of new stuff in the web shop too including mics from Neumann, RCA, Octavia and Lustraphone.
#ribbonmics #melodium42b #rcaribbonmic
@xaudiamics here’s the photo without the cough 😂
The BoRbon tower of power next to a restored Melodium 42b. They all sound great.
Guess which mic is the loudest?
I finally got round to hacking a circuit to run one of these Grundig GCM3 condenser mics off phantom power.
They are super cheap and are basically a large (3inch /75 mm) condenser capsule in a Bakelite housing without any other components. The rest of the circuits would have been inside the tape recorder that it was sold alongside.
Here I built a simplified KM84 circuit into a box and connected the two. The Grundig is supposed to see 100v but is quite happy with 48v polarisation. It will lose 6dB output level but it is more than loud enough with the lower voltage.
It is a bit low fi and the two examples I have are wildly different - I'll post some sound files and a circuit at the Xaudia blog and MoMics.org
#grundigmicrophone #onthebench #momics
Today we are building a few @extinctaudio BerZerker ribbon mics. We designed the BerZerker as a vintage style vocal microphone, but you can use it on whatever you like. They are a bit fiddly to build but very much worth the effort. And they come in a lovely wooden box too.
#ribbonmics #onthebench
We are excited and a little bit proud to announce the launch of Momics.org , our on-line Museum of Microphones.
The museum is and will forever be a work in progress. At launch we have over two hundred microphones in the collection along with over two thousand individual photographs and documents, and over a hundred and fifty example sound recordings. The collection will continue to expand over the coming months and years, including additional recordings when we find time to make them, and more documents as we come across them.
We have microphones dating back to the earliest days of telephony, including a replica of Alexander Graham Bell’s first working transmitter from 1876 which earned him his patent and changed the world. We also have some crunchy sounding carbon microphones from the 1920, ribbon mics from the 1930s that were used for recording motion pictures, along with broadcast mics from the early 40s that allowed Charles De Gaulle and Winston Churchill to address their nations. We even have a mic that was used to locate incoming enemy aircraft in WWII.
Hopefully you will find something of interest and everything is free without a paywall or advertising. Take a tour but try not to get lost and stay all day!
#momics #vintagemicrophones #vintagemics
