How The Great Neumann U87 Is Made…
My favorite mic. Enjoy. -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtjHhtxmpI
Interesting little clip about how a Neumann U87 microphone is manufactured. Pretty fiddly, with a ton of hand labor – no wonder they’re so freaking expensive!
Reagan, Carter, Anderson This is election night, 1980 at ABC New York. The big camera is an Ikegami HK 312E with the big Triax box on it’s right side. The ENG camera may be an Ikegami 77, but I’m not sure. Do you know? Source
June 20, 1948…Ed Sullivan Comes To Television On this day in 1948, CBS debuted “Toast Of The Town” from The Maxine Elliott Theater (CBS Studio 51). In the first photo, you see what looks like a set for a puppet show…it is not. When you watch the opening of the show at the link, you […]
The Original Amateur Hour With Ted Mack: Part 1 Long before ‘American Idol’, ‘Star Search’ and even Arthur Godfrey’s ‘Talent Scout’ came to television, there was this. As you’ll see below in the other 3 parts, this was the granddaddy of them all. Between the radio and television years, the show discovered the likes of […]
State Of The Art: Video Tape Delay Until sometime in the mid to late 60s, this is the way you got a 6 second delay for live television events. In this photo, you would have recorded on the left machine, thread the tape over a few homemade spendels and play it back on the machine […]
I once got to hold an early-’60s Telefunken ELA M 251, worth about $20,000. It nearly was a religious experience.
My everyday voice mic now is a vintage RCA BK-1A “ice cream cone.” I know it was the ubiquitous TV mic of the 1950s and ’60s, but when you mount it on a boom with a pop filter, dial the EQ in right and work it closely, it sounds very, VERY good for voiceovers.
The Neumann is great for music, but my favorite for voice is the Sennheiser 421.