andylouder Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 If anyone was watching BBC 2 this evening , the programme about Mario Lanza , you may have noticed this mic. In the clip where he arrives in the UK and is met at what I think was a London train station, by hordes of adoring female fans , a tv interviewer asks him a few questions using this mic. Its a cast iron sphere about two and a half inches in diameter , with a hole on one side about an inch in diameter with a grill and presumably capsule mounted inside. Over the aperture there is a circular disk about three inches in diameter with a hole in the centre of about one and a half inches. I found one of these once in a bottom drawer in a tech room at a London cabaret club I was working at , and was quite intrigued. I think I once placed it face down on the floor in an attempt to mic up a tapdancer. Cant remember how successful that was , not very probably. Anybody got any ideas p.s. no I cant draw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Once called an "Apple and Biscuit" mic! Very tolerant of ludicrous SPLs Apparently the BBC used one in the bell-chamber to record Big Ben (130 - 160 dB close to the hammer at strike!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 you mean one of these - STC 4021http://www.btinternet.com/~roger.beckwith/bh/mics/4021_1.jpgomni-directional and rather heavy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OB2 Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 http://www.btinternet.com/~roger.beckwith/bh/mics/4021.htm all you've ever wanted to know........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andylouder Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 nice one guys that was a bunch of very quick replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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