RCA to modern mic stand thread adapter A few months ago I was trying to find some thread adapters for a customer with an old RCA junior r...

Unintended poetry, via translation of a Japanese auction. It is a rare thing. It is a microphone, I kept it as collection with a thing ha...

Here's a little lesson that I learned (again) recently. Buying cheap, used equipment can cost just as much, or more, than buying new. ...

Sony F-V300 and C38b microphones This unusual Sony microphone (left) looks like the younger brother of a C38b (right) or maybe a C48 con...

Microphone ribbons are generally made from very thin metal foil, and aluminium is the ideal material as it is very light but also very condu...

This old microphone by Philips came from a seller in Egypt - I have a vision of it being used back in the 1940s and 50's, broadcasting ...

Here's an early Electrovoice velocity ribbon mic, model V1. These are great looking microphones, but the early versions are rather cru...

Pansy the cat has got it in for the MacBook, and launches surprise attacks like this, usually whilst I'm writing an important email, a...

This was the scene at Xaudia studio yesterday - a beautiful cold, crisp and bright day in North Yorkshire, and it's times like this you ...

October was a bad month for blogging - I was busy with the haunted house sound installation, and this was compounded by a fault with my Macb...

Almost two years ago, singer-songwriter  Drew Stephenson  and Cellist Hilary Jones started recording an album in our studio. Anyway, after w...

The big ' Hallowscream ' event at York Maze is now over for the year, and the guys and girls are now hurridly getting ready for Guy...

For a change, I have spent most of October fitting speakers and providing the sounds for the Halloween events at York Maze close to our s...

This is the first 'Microphone of the Month' blog, featuring classic or unusual microphones. Hopefully I'll manage to find time e...

Last week's technical article talked about different methods of connecting a condenser capsule to the grid of a tube amplifier, in order...

Even in the simplest of tube microphone circuits, there are different approaches to connecting the microphone capsule to the tube. Let's...

Unknown German tube microphone Here is a recent Ebay find. It's an unbranded tube microphone, and judging from the components probabl...

Here is a scan of the original Russian manual for the LOMO 19a19 tube microphone. The full schematics for the 19a9 have been hard to ...

Thiele M5 tube microphone Here’s a scan of a short advertising document for Thiele M4 and M5 (photo to the left) tube microphones. ...

Last time I wrote about a pair of Syncron AU7A microphones. The capsules were in good condition, but the batteries had leaked, causing corro...