Can anyone tell me the manufacturer and model number of the microphones in this video? It's driving me nuts!
Skeeter Davis -- The End Of The World - YouTube
Skeeter Davis -- The End Of The World - YouTube
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I don't know but I want some! That is so much sleeker and smaller than the usual mics we use today.
I believe it is a Bruel and Kjaer 4900 series mic. If you do a google image search on: bruel and kjaer mics 4939 you can find some better pictures.
These were tiny capsules that could be attached to a variety of bases
Sharyn
It is also quite possible that this is a totally phony mic. Back in those days very few "shows" which involved a singer performing a hit were actually live, the record was played and it was all lip synced. Remember that at that time all film had the audio added later, since the cameras made quite a racketWOW, I don't think the bean counters will let me buy any of those!
It is also quite possible that this is a totally phony mic. Back in those days very few "shows" which involved a singer performing a hit were actually live, the record was played and it was all lip synced. Remember that at that time all film had the audio added later, since the cameras made quite a racket
American Band stand (now I really am dating myself) was ALL lip synced the mics were on stands with NO cords
Sharyn
It might be a Marantz Superscope.
It might be a Marantz Superscope.
It looks too small to house the magnet and matching transformer for a dynamic. Condensers were rarely used outside of recording studios in 1965. TV production didn't often put effort into sound because lip syncing was much easier in a noisy, acoustically bad TV studio.
The closest I can come to that mic is an Altec 21B. It has the right shape and size, but there is no lump for the vacuum tube, and it would have had to be within inches of the capsule.
Altec 21B
That's leads me to the conclusion that the mic is a fake. Even if the show wasn't lip synced, the mic could be prop for musicians not comfortable with TV, and the sound could have been from an overhead boom mic. Booms were very commonly used in TV because the mics of the day had to be larger than desired for appearance.
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