Can you identify this 1960's microphone?

[Geoff738]

I have a collection of vintage microphones including these.

My biggest ever find was a Neumann U47 at a second hand shop. A few weeks later I found the matching power supply and leads at a flea market. It needed restoration and I sold it for a tidy sum to a a German guy in Sydney who was making U47 clones.

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Likes me some RCA ribbons.

Ben Sneezby by any chance?

Cheers
Geoff

 

[Sparky2]

Time for a limerick, I think.

I don't know Jack Schidtt about microphones
even the ones used by the Rolling Stones
Now, ask me about guitars
or even motorcycles and cars
and I'll fill you in on makes, models, and tones

Okay, I said it was time for a limerick.
I didn't say the limerick was going to be worth a Schidtt.

 

[THX1139]

Bob

I knew you'd have some nice ones.

 

[chezdeluxe]

Likes me some RCA ribbons.

Ben Sneezby by any chance?

Cheers
Geoff

No not Ben I can’t remember the gentleman’s name.
It was around 2004
My U47 was the model made after the VF14 valve stocks had run out and a Nuvistor “peanut valve” was substituted by Neumann.

The mic had been found amongst old radio station gear stored in a shed beside the repeater station.

The guy who sold it knew nothing about mics and didn’t know the power supply and leads went with the mic.
He put the mic in his shop at an antique center where I bought it for $50. I had goose flesh when I spotted it.

A few weeks later I spotted the power supply at a flea market….more goose flesh ….bought it for a couple of dollars and took it to show my wife who was also at the market.
She intelligently told me I should check to see if there was more gear with the dealer and there were the power supply leads that I had overlooked. A real Eureka moment

 

[THX1139]

It's like those Porsche dentists throwing fried brakes away with their perfectly good $800 hubs intact. Love finding vintage goodies that folks think are relatively worthless.

 

[chezdeluxe]

Microphones, especially the vintage ones, were typically owned by commercial, industrial or community organizations.

When they were replaced the old ones went to landfill.

A different fate from personally owned gear like cameras, musical instruments, firearms, fishing equipment etc which was usually retained or sold by the owner or heirs.

 

[loudboy]

I, like others, bring some of my own mics and outboard to sessions if I know who I'm tracking and what material we're doing.

I was doing a project with a very well known singer, and we were chatting after the first vocal session. The sound was good, but not as good as I'd hoped.

He said he'd rented a modded U87 from Klaus Heyne, when he did his first record (huge hit) and had then bought it and subsequently used it on every vocal.

I asked him if he still had it. He said he did. Could you bring it, next time? Showed up with it the next session in a plastic grocery bag...

Plugged it in, and bam, there it was.

 

[loudboy]

When they were replaced the old ones went to landfill.

I'm not sure who it was, but I read an interview with a US mic dude who was bringing over boxes of U47/67s when all the European radio and TV stations switched to U87s.