Sometimes I see patterns or trends in what arrives on the bench. A year ago it was RCA 74s, and in spring 2011 it was Electrovoice ribbon mi...

This little dinosaur sculpture was made out of waste winding coils, stripped mostly from old Reslo and other microphone transformers. :) ...

A while back I wrote about the Syncron AU7a FET condenser microphones , which are sometimes badged as the Fairchild F22. In that post I...

GEC BCS 2373 and 2370 microphones This pair of rather handsome ribbon microphones by General Electrical Company are our microphones of ...

Here is the instruction manual for Reslosound RB microphones

Mullard mustard capacitors :-D

There is no 'Mic of the Month' article this month - normal service will resume in July. You can read the archive HERE . Since the ...

We needed a better way of wax potting our pickups and transformers. Here's what we did on a budget... Redneck wax potting bath for g...

The new ME307 coil winder is up and running, and we're jumping straight in to winding some guitar pickups. The idea was that this shoul...

Christian Borngraeber has launched this brilliant project ... He is asking for help to record single notes from a huge number of pianos,...

The 'new'* Meteor ME307 coil winder has just arrived at the Xaudia workshop, after a 500 mile round trip to collect it... We are ...

My friends in The Savoy Ballroom needed some stage DI boxes for their numerous acoustic instruments. They wanted to be able to mute the sign...

This week we have been building lots of little transformer moxes to match vintage 30 ohm ribbon mics to modern mic preamps. Correct impedan...

Our Microphone of the Month for May is the magnificent Melodium 42B ribbon microphone. Evolving Melodium 42b - serial no. in the 1700s...

April's MOTM was a nice old Framez ribbon mic, and its chunky Meazzi sister also made an appearance. Here's the article...  and here...

Another typical day at the Xaudia studio & workshop... Outside the studio .... flowers, blue sky and cows. And inside, in the base...