It's been a while since we've had a "show us your..." thread. We've never had a "show us you mics" thread before, so I thought I's start one now. I'll start! All of these are either DIY or have been chopped/modified by me. The most I paid was ~$20 each for the Turner +1 and for the Shure PE50. Everything else cost less than $5 (including parts for the DIY ones).
Heil ICM condenser Mic,(35 Hz to 12 kHz) made for "ICOM transceivers that exhibit low gain in the microphone amplifier stage." Shure 520DX & Audix Fireball V
If i could get the Heil to plug into my mixer I'd try it out, it's just used for voice radio transmissions.
So c'mon cloud: Which is your favorite? Yea I know-different mikes for different amps, gigs, etc. but you still probably have a favorite or most used. d ---------- Myspace: dennis moriarty
I carry 2 mics: A Shure 545 Ultimate and an Audix Fireball V. With these two I find that am covered for any type of playing situation. Personally, I do not use bullet mics.
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Just last night installed the switchcraft on the Green Bullet and the 545. The 545 was a pistol grip, I decided to mount the switchcraft where the old pistol mount was, as I sort of liked the feel of it that way. I really like this mic with one of Gregs volume controls on it.
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@ cloud,.. "but most used is the chopped turner" That would be my Sonny Boy Blue <> w/Caddy style fin <> Thank you my Bro!! ---------- Simply Unique Kustom Mic's By Rharley
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hey EV. totally agree with your views on having good chops,unmodified tube amps, and mics.
i used an EV630 for a while. hell iv'e used almost everything over the years. i just keep going back to my purty biscuit w/ a CR though. i personally just didn't like swingin' all that metal around on the 630. iv'e played two 630 chops from gregg h. and they are really nice. even so...i just like my astatics.
you may or may not have noticed that i post completely fabricated customizing tips for harps and amps in a sort of tounge-n-cheek stab at rebuilding the wheel before you know how to drive.
Hey MP. Actually my "go to" mic is my 707A. Someone asked me about that mic recently and I sent them this explanation:
That element was made from a piece of the holy grail, kept hidden by Knight Templar Crusaders in the famous Qalat Salah a-Deen fortress in Northern Syria. It was later stolen by marauding Hashasheen from the Alawite tribe near the mountains of Latakia and (being no respecters of great tone) later sold to the Cairo Museum around 1786. Discovered by Nazis in WWII (who noticed the black label and realised the significance) it was transported by plane to Berlin and stored in a vault in the Reichstag. It was then found by Stalinist troops, a few feet from Hitler's evil cold, dead hand, and spirited away across the steppes as a gift to Papa Joe. Fortunately, some GIs stopped the troop truck at a checkpoint and it was discovered and confiscated as "looting" along with 12 crates of apple schnapps and some links. The GIs put it in the diplomatic bag (minus the hooch and snaggers) and it ended up in the Smithsonian in a drawer in the "Far Eastern Iconography" division, section 12, room 468, "Mystical Microphones Bureau". Misplaced during a stock take, it was taken home by a janitor, who sold it to an amp builder, who sold it to Tom Ellis, who sold it to me.
you kick my ass, but i have an original CR made from the ankle bone, (we are talking serious relic here), of Saint Anthony of Padua. it is the very same historic element Dufay insisted upon using during the very first performance of his subsequently "lost MASS for ST. TONY OF P." the mass done got found agin and is on deutche gramaphone, but the element was left gettin' dusty in a stained glass window depicting one of the stations of the cross in a french church. the SAME ONE in da vinci code.( that is soooo wierd!) it was found and pocketed by an american tourist whos wife forces dubious cultural experiences on him and he sold it on e-bay not knowing what he had...the dummy. another dummy bought it and i bought it from dummy no 2. it is a 99A. A for ANTHONY? do i have to draw a picture?
anyway...i get serious religeon playing this pup.
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