Testing 1, 2, 3: In Praise of the Vintage Microphone
By Maribeth Keane
— I started my website on vintage microphones in 2001, for a couple of reasons. One was for the benefit of my students. I taught audio controls and master control operations for radio broadcasting and our textbook didn’t cover many of the older microphones, especially the older RCA microphones that were used in the 1930s, and are still used today in broadcasting and music recording studios. The second thing that inspired it was my 90-year-old mother who said, “I thought all microphones were...
