Edwird
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ORIGINAL: Edwird That's because in Denmark they're too busy making excellent microphones from Brüel & Kjær and DPA, and world class phonograph cartridges from Ortofon, including the most excellent SPU series! Good old B&K are still around ? I still have one of their oscilloscopes. Actually I have used quite a bit of their gear. It is not really top of the line but it works and seems to pretty accurate. Now I am more into Fluke meters and Tektronix scopes, and now an HP freq counter which I will have to play with and get used to. I was never a big fan of HP equipment but I won't knock it until I've tried it. I am going to have to see the specs on those mics because I have a real market opportunity in the wings for something like that. I will need a model that will be available for many years, and I mean the exact model, not just something with the same "specs". I need them to be exactly the same because what they plug into will be calibrated. I won't reveal the details out in the open forum because there is no patent and anyone on the planet can read all this. Whatever happens thanks for the heads up, I thought that B&K were history. If they have what I want and this thing takes off I might send you a few bucks because this could be fairly big. T^T High back, Termy. I think B&K are still around. I went to their web site to see if they were still up and running, and went to Wiki to copy/paste the non-English spelling. They've always had a very good reputation for instrumentation or measurement microphones. I've been out of the sound and live shows biz for some years now (much more live mixing than studio, in any case). I surprised myself in even remembering B&K, since they weren't used in the studio much. It's ironic, one could say, that the measured flattest frequency response microphones were/are hardly used in the studio. They still use a tube-based mic and oftentimes an outboard tube preamp for vocals on almost half what you hear on the radio even today. There's something about the finesse and nuance of instruments, especially woodwinds, that the flat response mics don't capture quite as well as the classic mics, and nobody can figure out why that is. But for white noise or pink noise measurements, tone generator single frequencies, etc., with the mic going into a scope or a real time analyzer, something like B&K is what you want. Ribbon mics (no active electronics, unlike the classic or modern condenser mics) are used a lot too. When Al Green retired from singing to be a preacher, he took his RCA 44C (ribbon mic) with him. He brought it out of retirement, along with himself, into the studio in making his latest record. The same mic used in the late '30s for movies- alive and well in the studio today. The mic preamps of today are much improved, in case you're wondering why modern use of the RCA 44C sounds noticeably better. I still have a turntable, so my mention of Ortofon might give a hint of what phono cartridge I use, one of them anyway.
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