Louis,
Why would you do that?  It seems to me that if someone wanted the sound 
of a 414, they'd just rent a 414.

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Louis Hone wrote:
> A crystal microphone that sounds good ???  I can't comment on this actual
> broadcast, but I wouldn't go with looks alone:  I have several vintage
> microphones that I rent out and some of them I have modified, so that the
> guts are AKG 414s or Neumann U-87, or KM-84s.   So they may look like RCA
> 44s or RCA 77s or RCA BK5s  but they sound very different.
> 
> Louis
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daniel Roth
> Sent: 2 février 2011 14:19
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] How would a band be setup for recording in the late
> 1920s?
> 
> I seem to recall a Fresh Air broadcast in the mid-90's with the Squirrel Nut
> Zippers in which the producers employed a vintage Philmore Crystal
> Microphone from the 20's. The entire room was captured by this one mic and
> it sounded tremendously authentic, despite the FM broadcast.
> ------
> Dan Roth
> Audio Technician
> Walter J Brown Media Archives and
> Peabody Awards Collection
> University of Georgia
> Main Library
> Athens, GA
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] How would a band be setup for recording in the late
> 1920s?
> 
> Start with engineer Raymond Sooey's journal:
> http://www.davidsarnoff.org/soo-maintext.html
> 
> He may have run the very sessions you are asking about.
> 
> -- Tom Fine
> 
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 12:17 PM
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] How would a band be setup for recording in the late
> 1920s?
> 
> 
>> Hi folks, I am wondering if anyone has a resource recommendation that
> would
>> discuss how a band would record in the late 1920s? (Specifically for
>> Victor.) My colleague here in New Orleans tells me that the
> instrumentalists
>> would arrange themselves around a microphone in a semicircle, the loudest
>> instruments being staggered further away. The vocalist, meanwhile, would
>> have his/her/their own mic some distance from the band, and the two lines
>> would run straight to the machine. Does this sound accurate to you? I need
>> to verify this setup and would love some resource suggestions.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> --
>> Kathryn Hobgood Ray
>>
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>> http://www.snoozerquinn.com
>>
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