Re:How to operate a ribbon microphone and other important things too
2013/03/09 11:11:43
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My first job out of grad school in the early 90’s (actually my second, but the first one only lasted 2 months and that's another story) was with an American company that had recently been broken up in a sale to a Japanese company. My job was formulating B&W photographic developers for the graphic arts and medical X-ray industries. I knew nothing about the industry or the related chemistry and essentially got into an industry in its death throes.
When the company was broken-up, a bunch of antiquated file cabinets had been moved to the new facility where I was employed. It was kind of neat because the cabinets contained a bunch of WWII era formulation / data / spec sheets for developers and fixers. The developers and fixers were to be used with the high speed film associated with state of the art, high speed cameras (i.e., aerial surveillance). It was the kind of information necessary to transfer technology from the lab bench to manufacturing. When you looked at them, they looked like props for an old spy film; they were marked “Top Secret” and “Eyes Only”.
The RCA document (which goes far beyond just ribbon mics) reminded me of those old manuals in its layout and I did end up perusing beyond the first page.
Dave
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