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Re: [ARSCLIST] Vintage Recording Equipment



That's quite a mic closet!

Regarding the original question, about obtaining the vintage equipment. In the case of Western Electric, be prepared to pay. You might check some of the props-rental places that serve Hollywood. I think there's one guy who just specializes in old electronic gear. All things WECO have cult value and go pricey on eBay. I must say, the stuff is built like tanks and it IS the rosetta stone of or source spring of most electronics (at least in the USA), so the cult is not whacko like with some vintage gear. I've heard of at least one recording studio that still uses a WECO 22D remote mixer as a "flavor" of mic preamp!

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Sohn" <mahatma57@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Vintage Recording Equipment



At 10/4/2007 08:50 AM, Karl Jackson wrote:

I'm writing to inquire about recording equipment used in 1950s era radio
broadcasts. I work with the United States Marine Band, which will be
celebrating its 210th anniversary next year. As part of our concert series,
we will be transporting one of our "Dream Hour" radio broadcasts to the
concert stage, complete with microphones, equipment, and announcer. We would
like to replicate the gear as accurately as possibly. I've posted
photographs of a broadcast here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/karl.j.jackson/HistoricUSMBPictures?authkey=NAbG
I8uh8RE, and am hoping that you all can help to identify and or locate some
of the equipment, including microphones and mixer/transmitter. My best
guesses for microphones is that they are either RCA 50-A or Western Electric
618A. I have no idea what the contraption in front of the broadcast engineer
is.

Try contacting Bob Paquette Sr. www.sssmilwaukee.com/Microphone%20Museum.html
I don't know him, but was just reading an article about his microphone museum in the latest issue of TapeOp Magazine. He is the author of "the History and Evolution of the Microphone" and is an authority on pre-1960's broadcast microphones.


-Matt Sohn


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