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Our Marconi-Reisz carbon mic lives again. It has been cleaned and re-packed with carbon, and sounds remarkable good for something that is nearly a hundred years old. These were used at the BBC and numerous other broadcasters from the mid 1920s to theearly 1930s.
Learn more at MoMics.org , the museum of microphones.
#vintagemics #extinctaudio

Nice to see a few Black Ops mics being used on “The Elders” - the legendary amps of @sunnofficial . Acknowledged as one of the loudest bands in the world, it’s good to know that our ribbon mics are holding up just fine. Watch @stephenomalley74 talk through the bands backline with @evil_greed here https://youtu.be/g16FTOHWzjs?si=wK7HbY5U0ZvPQoIw

Nice to see a few Black Ops mics being used on “The Elders” - the legendary amps of @sunnofficial . Acknowledged as one of the loudest bands in the world, it’s good to know that our ribbon mics are holding up just fine. Watch @stephenomalley74 talk through the bands backline with @evil_greed here https://youtu.be/g16FTOHWzjs?si=wK7HbY5U0ZvPQoIw

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.

Great to see @lightship95 featured on @producelikeapro and showing the BM9 some love. 🙌
Awesome!

These blue and gold BoRbon mics are really catching the sunshine today! #ribbonmics #extinctaudio

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

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

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

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?

The Blue Sparkle BoRbon - available now!

Not long until we launch the Tequila Sunrise Ghost BoRbon…..

Not long until we launch the Tequila Sunrise Ghost BoRbon…..

Not long until we launch the Tequila Sunrise Ghost BoRbon…..

Not long until we launch the Tequila Sunrise Ghost BoRbon…..

Another new BoRbon colour! Not sure what to call this one, maybe the Bloobon? Suggestions welcome. #ribbonmics @extinctaudio

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