WTB: vintage microphones

stylesforfree

Looking to avoid silly overpriced eBay listings...

I am after the electrovoice EV or early PL series EV RE15, RE664 and PL6 or 635A.

Shure 545

AKG D130

Or anything else useful for guitar cab and acoustic miking.

Snarklife

Hey, there. I have a Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) 4106 wide range cardioid, as per https://coutant.org/stc/4106/4106.pdf

Condition is as might be expected for a mic dating back to the 60s and rescued from a London studio in the 90s. It's scratched here and there and there is a coloured mark on it. But, overall, it's actually in pretty good condition. The cable feeds directly into the microphone with no socket or casing at the bottom (terminates in a TS plug).

It still works superbly. Low impedance (30 ohms) so it enjoys a little gain, but it's beautifully rich in tone and has a dream response curve for cabs. or close micing.

From what I've learned, it's quite a rare model (with a couple of units in the Science Museum). Marco C. van der Hoeven, author of "Witnesses of Words: How 20th Century Microphones Made History" wrote that it was "by far the best sounding dynamic cardioid the company ever produced". (https://www.vintagemicworld.com/html/Mic%20of%20the%20month%20May%202021-STC%204106%20vintage%20dynamic.html).

Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Ghostpoet, Fibs, Anna Meridith) uses one at Hackney Road Studios (https://www.shutashinoda.co.uk/studios) and I'm pretty sure there's one at Toerag, too - they definitely used a 4038 and a 4021 to record The White Stripes 'Elephant' there.

stylesforfree

Snarklife said:

Hey, there. I have a Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) 4106 wide range cardioid, as per https://coutant.org/stc/4106/4106.pdf

Condition is as might be expected for a mic dating back to the 60s and rescued from a London studio in the 90s. It's scratched here and there and there is a coloured mark on it. But, overall, it's actually in pretty good condition. The cable feeds directly into the microphone with no socket or casing at the bottom (terminates in a TS plug).

It still works superbly. Low impedance (30 ohms) so it enjoys a little gain, but it's beautifully rich in tone and has a dream response curve for cabs. or close micing.

From what I've learned, it's quite a rare model (with a couple of units in the Science Museum). Marco C. van der Hoeven, author of "Witnesses of Words: How 20th Century Microphones Made History" wrote that it was "by far the best sounding dynamic cardioid the company ever produced". (https://www.vintagemicworld.com/html/Mic%20of%20the%20month%20May%202021-STC%204106%20vintage%20dynamic.html).

Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Ghostpoet, Fibs, Anna Meridith) uses one at Hackney Road Studios (https://www.shutashinoda.co.uk/studios) and I'm pretty sure there's one at Toerag, too - they definitely used a 4038 and a 4021 to record The White Stripes 'Elephant' there.

Thanks, for the offer, TS plug is a no go for me. Also, I was just watching a couple of STC microphones recently on ebay, 4033, out of my budget though!

Snarklife

stylesforfree said:

Snarklife said:

Hey, there. I have a Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) 4106 wide range cardioid, as per https://coutant.org/stc/4106/4106.pdf

Condition is as might be expected for a mic dating back to the 60s and rescued from a London studio in the 90s. It's scratched here and there and there is a coloured mark on it. But, overall, it's actually in pretty good condition. The cable feeds directly into the microphone with no socket or casing at the bottom (terminates in a TS plug).

It still works superbly. Low impedance (30 ohms) so it enjoys a little gain, but it's beautifully rich in tone and has a dream response curve for cabs. or close micing.

From what I've learned, it's quite a rare model (with a couple of units in the Science Museum). Marco C. van der Hoeven, author of "Witnesses of Words: How 20th Century Microphones Made History" wrote that it was "by far the best sounding dynamic cardioid the company ever produced". (https://www.vintagemicworld.com/html/Mic%20of%20the%20month%20May%202021-STC%204106%20vintage%20dynamic.html).

Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Ghostpoet, Fibs, Anna Meridith) uses one at Hackney Road Studios (https://www.shutashinoda.co.uk/studios) and I'm pretty sure there's one at Toerag, too - they definitely used a 4038 and a 4021 to record The White Stripes 'Elephant' there.

Thanks, for the offer, TS plug is a no go for me. Also, I was just watching a couple of STC microphones recently on ebay, 4033, out of my budget though!

My bad, I should have said, it actually comes with an original STC 4069L connector (which plugs into the mic) and cable. That's currently terminated with a TRS jack, not a TS. It s three pins can easily be rewired to an XLR, or you can buy 4069 to XLR adaptors quite cheaply if you didn't fancy rewiring.

stylesforfree

Snarklife said:

stylesforfree said:

Snarklife said:

Hey, there. I have a Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) 4106 wide range cardioid, as per https://coutant.org/stc/4106/4106.pdf

Condition is as might be expected for a mic dating back to the 60s and rescued from a London studio in the 90s. It's scratched here and there and there is a coloured mark on it. But, overall, it's actually in pretty good condition. The cable feeds directly into the microphone with no socket or casing at the bottom (terminates in a TS plug).

It still works superbly. Low impedance (30 ohms) so it enjoys a little gain, but it's beautifully rich in tone and has a dream response curve for cabs. or close micing.

From what I've learned, it's quite a rare model (with a couple of units in the Science Museum). Marco C. van der Hoeven, author of "Witnesses of Words: How 20th Century Microphones Made History" wrote that it was "by far the best sounding dynamic cardioid the company ever produced". (https://www.vintagemicworld.com/html/Mic%20of%20the%20month%20May%202021-STC%204106%20vintage%20dynamic.html).

Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Ghostpoet, Fibs, Anna Meridith) uses one at Hackney Road Studios (https://www.shutashinoda.co.uk/studios) and I'm pretty sure there's one at Toerag, too - they definitely used a 4038 and a 4021 to record The White Stripes 'Elephant' there.

Thanks, for the offer, TS plug is a no go for me. Also, I was just watching a couple of STC microphones recently on ebay, 4033, out of my budget though!

My bad, I should have said, it actually comes with an original STC 4069L connector (which plugs into the mic) and cable. That's currently terminated with a TRS jack, not a TS. It s three pins can easily be rewired to an XLR, or you can buy 4069 to XLR adaptors quite cheaply if you didn't fancy rewiring.

Cool, so how much are you selling it for?