Vintage Microphone Gallery

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

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

[#1 posted by toxonix , March 28, 2008 12:30 PM]

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

[#2 posted by strider_mt2k , March 28, 2008 5:33 PM]

Nice!
I like 'em all!

[#3 posted by pinup57 , March 29, 2008 12:32 AM]

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.

[#4 posted by Mister Staal , March 31, 2008 12:58 PM]

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!