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QST magazine is the monthly publication of the American Radio Relay league (h.f. ARRL). ARRL has published QST since 1915. The ARRL is the main membership organization for ‘Hams,’ otherwise known as amateur radio operators. We discussed Hams a bit in this previous post on vernacular graphics. I am not a Ham radio-operator, and I […]
AKG D36 advert from 1954 Continuing our survey of AUDIO magazine’s early years: over the next couple of weeks we will look at some of the more relevant content from the first two years that this venerable publication ran under the title ‘Audio,’ the prior title having been ‘Audio Engineering.’ (full backstory here and here). […]
A quick review of some odd mics from the ‘pile’ that have not made it over to the studio yet. If anyone out there is using these for makin’ records, drop a line a let us know yr thoughts. Above is the Altec 660A, which is an Altec-branded iteration of an earlier western-electric mic. This […]
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I keep some Turner 99 microphones in the mic locker. The Turner 99 is one of the few 1950’s dynamic mics that I feel compelled to use for studio recording. Since we had a drum kit setup for recording in a fairly live room, I thought this would […]
In the process of preparing tomorrow’s post, I came across these circa 1951 microphone ads. Check em out. Some icons here, some forgotten specimens. I have never used these BRUSH mics. Seem like communications, rather than recording microphones. These particular EVs were primarily intended as HAM/PA mics. I have a few 630s and 636s and […]