Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

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Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by Catoogie » Tue May 27, 2003 8:41 am

I was looking through the Beatles Recording Sessions book last night and was curious as to what the mic hanging over Ringo's kit is. It's not the Coles, it looks like a EV 635 or something similar. Anyone know?
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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by aurelialuz » Tue May 27, 2003 9:07 am

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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by ciminosound » Tue May 27, 2003 1:50 pm

Yeah, It's an AKG D-19. There are some with Telefunken lables out there too. I've seen it refered to as being a cheap dynamic (hence the "D"). They show up on Ebay every so often.
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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by Catoogie » Tue May 27, 2003 1:52 pm

How much do they go for?
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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by todd » Tue May 27, 2003 8:21 pm

this is only speculation since i've never used a d-19, but $400-$500 dollars that these go for on ebay is surely WAY too much for this mic. you're buying the idea, not necessarily the quality...

please correct me if i'm wrong (i'm by no means saying the d-19 is a piece of crap since
i have never had the pleasure to use one, but i'd much rather pick up 3 421's for the same price!)

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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by rhythm ranch » Tue May 27, 2003 8:32 pm

Speaking of the mic over Ringo's kit: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=41465
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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by ciminosound » Tue May 27, 2003 9:02 pm

Ahhh yeah. Waaayyy too much cash. I have read Geoff Emerick refer to them as "cheap talkback mics" .

READ THIS ARTICLE IF YOU HAVEN'T YET!... Sorry for yelling....:crazy:

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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by aurelialuz » Tue May 27, 2003 9:35 pm

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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by Catoogie » Wed May 28, 2003 7:31 am

What would be a comparable mic to this?
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Re: Beatles Recording Session Book: Drum Mic

Post by A.David.MacKinnon » Wed May 28, 2003 8:10 am

Holy Crap! I've got one of these!
I bought it for $40 from a friend. I'll buy any odd-ball mic for under $50. He had no idea what it was and neither did I untill now. After reading the Mix article I can say that mine is a D19A (the one with the bass ports) it also has a bass cut switch marked Voice or Music.
It sounds rather shitty really. Kind of thin and gross. I just did a garage rock record where I taped it to a 421 to record vocals (the 421 was too "good" sounding and the D19A added a nice bit of trash).
It has a 3 pin DIN connecter. I built an addapter to get it to XLR. I wired it up the same as I would wire an XLR. I wonder if i've got the pins wired wrong and it's sounding shittier than it should.
Anybody know what the pin-out on a 3 pin DIN connector is supposed to be?
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