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unusual facts about microphones



Church of the Sacred Heart, Singapore

The Church is air-conditioned and has an excellent sound system equipped with Shure microphones.

Cubs Win Flag

Due to the song's growing popularity, after wins at home, Cubs TV broadcasters Len Kasper and Bob Brenly would have their microphones shut off, while the camera pans around the stadium to view the jubilant fans as Go Cubs Go! plays in the background.

David Rotheray

Rotheray joined his first band when he was aged 13; it was called Mammoth, at one time performing the then-current Sex Pistols song, "Pretty Vacant" at a school concert, without any microphones.

Georg Neumann

Production of Neumann microphones was moved into a newly built level 100 cleanroom factory in Wedemark, near Hannover.

In the United States, for example, the "sound" of the best-known crooners of the 1940s (e.g. Bing Crosby and later Elvis Presley) had utilized the ultra-smooth, rolled-off tone of RCA ribbon microphones; pop recordings in the 1950s (e.g. Frank Sinatra and later The Beatles) on the other hand were sharper, clearer, much more "present" and more "hi-fi"-sounding as the result of using condenser microphones with elevated upper-mid-range response.

Heloise and the Savoir Faire

Deborah Harry provided vocals on the track Downtown off "Trash, Rats and Microphones" album.

Jonathan Kreinik

Supersystem - Recorded and mixed "A Million Microphones" full-length on Touch & Go, 2006

JZ Microphones

After 20 years of repairing Neumann, AKG, Telefunken microphones and participating in Blue and Violet microphones manufacturing he started to produce his own line of microphones.

Key Bank bug sweeping case

Law enforcement began a warrant-less investigation and placed several bugging devices and hidden microphones, which were responsible for over 65,000 wiretap intercepts.

Kimo Kaulani

Kimo's accomplishments have been recognized by several of the music industry’s leading software and equipment manufacturing companies such as Steinberg/Yamaha, MXL Microphones, Sony Pictures Digital and M-Audio.

Koenig's manometric flame apparatus

Alexander Graham Bell used this type of equipment to study the performance of his microphones and demonstrated it in his display at the 1876

Mārtiņš Saulespurēns

Under the encouragement of New York City recording studio owner Walter Sear, Saulespurēns and Wise developed their own line of microphones.

Montgomery Bell State Park

The conference center is six thousand square feet and features "standard business items" such as microphones, LCD projectors, DVD players and Internet connections.

MTR Professional Audio

Apart from manufacturing 'problem-solver' audio products such as the RaxX expandable 19" rack-mounting system, MTR distributes the Dutch stageClix digital wireless system for guitars, basses, microphones etc., Mcgregor UK-made mixer-amplifiers, power amplifiers, speakers, karaoke systems, the Californian A-Designs boutique audio products including the REDDI valve DI box, Pacifica microphone preamplifier, Hammer valve EQ.

Nightmare of 1934

In one hand the President held a fishing rod with a sucker on the line, in the other a bouquet of microphones.

Production sound mixer

Usually, the recordist will arrive on location with his/her own equipment, which normally includes microphones, radio systems, booms, mixing desk, audio storage, headphones, cables, tools, and a small amount of stationery for making notes and logs.

Rose Center Theater

The audio system includes JBL and EAW speakers arranged in a left-right-center orientation, Allen and Heath mixing console, Shure wireless microphones, and a Peavey Media Matrix DSP.

Sound ranging

The bearings are derived from the differences in the time of arrival at the microphones.

Spring of Two Blue J's

Seibert, assisted by Nick Moy and Alan Goodman, brought a portable Ampex 4-track, half inch, tape recorder, mixers, and microphones to capture the performances.

Stimmung

Stimmung, for six vocalists and six microphones, is a piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Cologne for the Collegium Vocale Köln.

Two from the Vault

Almost twenty-four years later, Don Pearson and producer Dan Healy solved this problem by employing a B&K 2032 Fast Fourier transform (FFT) digital spectrum analyzer to measure the delay in time between the different microphones, using the track of bassist Phil Lesh as the time centerpiece.


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