Name these mics

[sandall]

One for the "seniors". Can anyone ID these two, rigged in an MS setup for stereo show-relay?

Edited July 28, 2022 by sandall

[Ynot]

They both look familiar but I'm not enough of a noise boy to say what they are... 

 

But QUALITY mounting there...
😄 😄 😄

[sandall]

35 minutes ago, Ynot said:

QUALITY mounting there...

A plastic mic-clip (just out of top of picture),a K& M boom & a hook-clamp onto a bit of scaff completed the mounting (not a safety in sight)!

Clue - the lower mic will be a ribbon.

[kerry davies]

The top one looks like an M8 made by a firm called Film Industries of Kew Gardens  

Is the lower one from a tape recorder? Something tickles the synapses but memory is a funny thing at this distance. 

E2A just noticed where you are and West London might suggest a local "acquisition" for these two?

Edited July 29, 2022 by kerry davies
E2A

[sandall]

6 hours ago, kerry davies said:

West London might suggest a local "acquisition" for these two?

Couldn't possibly comment🙂, but the chap who originally hung them worked at Ealing Studios & the venue used to be littered with ex-BBC speakers from "Redundant Plant" in Chiswick. Good shout for the M8; maybe they were used by film recordists at one time. I had assumed the lower one to be a Coles or Reslo ribbon, but if you are right about the M8 it ought to be a cardioid.

[csg]

bottom mic looks like an AKG D12, a kick drum favourite from yesteryear

[sunray]

4 hours ago, csg said:

bottom mic looks like an AKG D12, a kick drum favourite from yesteryear

That was my first reaction but it looks like this one has some sort of loop/lug on the sides for the rope and I remember the d12 having a black moulding for the mic stand as part of the central strip.

Why am I trying to describe it, this is easier:

[GaryNattrass]

It's a D25 and pre dates the D12.

They were used on film booms in the 1960's:

 https://www.vintagemicworld.com/html/Mic of the month November.html

 

Edited August 2, 2022 by GaryNattrass

[sandall]

3 hours ago, GaryNattrass said:

It's a D25

Good call⭐. I suspect it might have been lying around on someone's workbench at TFS. I've got a couple of D14s here, which are a bit smaller & less robust, one of which has been repurposed as the innards of a dead AXBT.

[sunray]

4 hours ago, GaryNattrass said:

It's a D25 and pre dates the D12.

They were used on film booms in the 1960's:

 https://www.vintagemicworld.com/html/Mic of the month November.html

 

Well done, I had that sort of design in my head when I saw the way the cord is fitted.

[GaryNattrass]

The D25 was used on 2001 a Space Odyssey too: