NPR has this fascinating piece on the custom microphone building threaded with history of Neumann Microphones. Neumann made the smooth-sounding U47 that the Beatles recorded on almost exclusively on ...

Neumann has introduced the KMS 104 Plus, a new handheld microphone that boosts the bass range in the human voice. The mic is said to be optimized to improve female voices and can be used on camera in ...

Neumann first introduced the U 47 microphone back in the late 1940s. Back then the microphone utilized a Telefunken VF14 pentode tube, but once the company’s supply of these tubes ran dry Neumann had ...

Neumann microphones helped lend period authenticity to an NBC-TV special, "Tony Bennett: An American Classic," that celebrates the 60-year musical career of the performer. The microphones were used as ...

The Sennheiser MK4 condenser microphone has a large gold-plated diaphragm and is the perfect studio mic for vocals and voice-overs. In the world of high-end microphones, the kind that are used for ...

I’ve always considered Neumann microphones to be the “gold standard,” but I’ve had little experience with them (save the U87). Georg Neumann founded the company in Berlin in 1928, and over the years ...

Analog wizard Eric Schlaepfer send me this great video of a Neumann microphone being built. You even get a little of a hot tub being vacuum formed at the end. I love Discovery Channel. Now I want to ...

There are live shows, and then there’s what Danny Elfman is doing right now—a high-wire act that swings between orchestral film scores and industrial rock without ever losing its footing. Following ...

A new directional electrostatic microphone, type U 47, produced by the firm of Neumann in Berlin, incorporates the capsule originally designed for the type M 49 microphone but uses a cheaper form of ...

This report describes tests carried out on the latest capacitor microphone, type KM64, manufactured by Messrs, Neumann of Berlin. The microphone has a cardioid directional characteristic and is of the ...

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