Thinking of buying an inexpensive ribbon mic?

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2010/09/27 13:31:34 (permalink)

Thinking of buying an inexpensive ribbon mic?

check out this article.  lots of great info.
 
http://recordinghacks.com/2008/11/01/chinese-ribbon-microphone-designs/

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    Re:Thinking of buying an inexpensive ribbon mic? 2010/09/27 14:54:16 (permalink)
    Nice article.  Last year my brother went to China on business. (I forget which city exactly...) I asked him to pick me up a random cheap Chinese ribbon mic. He came back with a "short ribbon/long path" type according to that article. It cost $5, and included the nice padded case and shock mount. It's quite a decent sounding mic, especially for $5. I'd probably have paid upwards of $80 for it here

    My favorite aspect of it is that it's completely un-badged. No markings on it whatsoever. I'm still trying to decide how to spruce it up visually.
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    Re:Thinking of buying an inexpensive ribbon mic? 2010/09/27 15:24:33 (permalink)
    Tarsier...paint and decals works great....

    I saw this some time back and was fascinated: http://www.rimagraphics.com/microphone.html

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    Re:Thinking of buying an inexpensive ribbon mic? 2010/09/27 20:09:07 (permalink)
    wow!  that's a great deal, tarsier!

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    Re:Thinking of buying an inexpensive ribbon mic? 2010/09/27 21:58:55 (permalink)
    tarsier


    Nice article.  Last year my brother went to China on business. (I forget which city exactly...) I asked him to pick me up a random cheap Chinese ribbon mic. He came back with a "short ribbon/long path" type according to that article. It cost $5, and included the nice padded case and shock mount. It's quite a decent sounding mic, especially for $5. I'd probably have paid upwards of $80 for it here

    My favorite aspect of it is that it's completely un-badged. No markings on it whatsoever. I'm still trying to decide how to spruce it up visually.


    Put an old RCA logo on it. Here are two cool e-bay auctions

    190448985833

    310227997029

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    http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=790131
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    Re:Thinking of buying an inexpensive ribbon mic? 2010/09/28 10:07:21 (permalink)
    Those RCA logos would cost more than the mic!

    I'm thinking I want to embrace the China-ness of the thing. So maybe a dragon.
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    Re:Thinking of buying an inexpensive ribbon mic? 2010/09/28 10:25:40 (permalink)
    tarsier


    Those RCA logos would cost more than the mic!

    I'm thinking I want to embrace the China-ness of the thing. So maybe a dragon.


    Ooooo yes ! I like that.  Do a search on "dragon pin" on e-bay. Lots of cool mic logo looking stuff out there.
    post edited by ohhey - 2010/09/28 13:31:12

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