Iv never heard of seen them before until recently, but some of the stick ones look quite good (GDM 313) all Chrome heads nd stuff. I think they will just be simple dynamic elements. Has anyone had any experience with them?
I have two Grundig mics, a small Dynamic No313 and a larger round condenser mic. The 313 is an excellent harp mic and very good quality. The only thing I had to do was fit a 1/4" Jack plug to the lead as it came with a 2-pronged fitting. I use it for practice but the lead is not really long enough to use it on stage, although I'm sure it could be fitted with a longer lead. The larger condenser mic is not really practical as a harp mic as it is just too large to cup but it is a very good recording mic and even though the one I have is probably from the 60's it still works very well. I have found that quite a lot of the old reel to reel mics make excellent harp mics but most would need some work to make them useful as performance mics as they are smaller then normal mics and would not be as easy to fit 1/4" fittings to, although I saw Rharley fitted out a little Akai mic quite well.
If the price is right I would recommend them. The older Grundig mics were quality bits of kit.
I have a vintage 50's Grundig tube "HiFi" with a turntable and a reel to reel that came complete with microphones. I found the mics to be way to sensitive for harmonica.But the HiFi is really really really cool looking and great sounding
I have 2 Grundig Mics. One is G300 and the other one is G310. The first is a mid impedance mic (800Ohms) and the second one is a HiZ Mic (1200Ohms). They are dinamic mics that uses a transformer from LowZ to HiZ if I'm not wrong. Both of them are good harp mics but I prefer the G310. beware that at least my mics have a tendency to feedback, that's because this mic has a lot of gain, so it's an invitation to feedback with any amp.
If you find them at cheap price go for them. If not, let them pass and find yourself a better microphone. If you don't want a bullet mic, maybe a Shure 585, or Shure Unydine III could help.
Here it's a video I recorded using the Grundig 300 element in a new "bullet" case, made by a friend of mine in argentina.
Amplifier is a Vox VT30.
Audio starts at 1:00 aprox.
Cheers!
Edit: Phillips its Dutch??? I never knew that XD!!
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Last Edited by on Sep 01, 2011 9:32 AM
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Iv managed to get one for £30 including postage. It's the g313 model, is that a good deal? It hasn't been converted to a jack yet but I think It will need a impedance transformer I think you can get them for xlr to jack. Cheers for that page Cameron there is a lot of very nice mics there.
Yes Fellas! Philips is Dutch! One of our countries biggest entrepreneurs. Built a whole city for workers, providing schools, libraries, sporting facilities etc. That's where PSV Eindhoven originates from (for those interested in unimportant soccerclubs..). Now... Wait for it....... In a cooperation with Sony they invented the CD. That's right. CD's are a partially Dutch invention.
So we can do more than building dikes and founding New York. Just so you know ;)
