Vintage Microphone Gallery

Core77 has a great collection of collections of vintage microphones. Shiny!

True industrial design: vintage mic’s [Core77.com]

1. [Mister Staal]

   The nicest collection of vintage microphones I’ve seen is at The Warehouse Studio here in Vancouver. It’s Bryan Adam’s studio, and chock full of choice goodies. They have a Neve console that, when receiving an automation upgrade, was signed by Rupert Neve!

2. [toxonix]

   oooooh jeeezus. Ok the RCA ribbons are probably the most desirable there.
   The ‘Blue’ mics are ‘vintagesque’. Nice looking, but not vintage.

3. [strider_mt2k]

   Nice!
   I like ‘em all!

4. [pinup57]

   Very nice, of course, but both the BB comment (core77 has a great collection of vintage microphones…..) and core77′s own comment (but it’s also a sad reminder that a once-beautiful object, a device that truly signified “industrial design,” is gone forever…) are a bit misleading: 1: core77 posts a gallery of pictures (and says so), it’s not his/their collection 2: there are quite a few brandnew off-the-shelf mics of great design posted there (like the Blue mics). “Gone forever”, hmm, a bit exagerated! A bit pricey, certainly.