Hi everyone

This is sort of a shot in the dark but I feel like I can recall Steve mentioning once some kind of list or book of commonly used studio microphones from around the 1960s (it could have been a decade earlier or later), featuring the usual suspects, Neumanns, Coles, etc.

I can't remember who created this book or list or whatever it was (I have a vague memory of encountering it maybe in the form of a website? or PDF..)

If anyone knows what the hell I'm blathering about please let me know.

Thank you

is it this place:

https://www.coutant.org/

that's where I got a lot of info on vintage mics when I was buying them

That looks like a good resource! Thanks for the post. But I don't think it was that...I think it was some book that Steve was referencing from 'back in the day'. I was googling and realised it may have been a BBC book. In the web archive there are a few of these but they are more about microphone types than brands/models. Will keep searching.

Here are two old BBC microphone manuals:

https://www.bbceng.info/additions/2016/ ... rtson).pdf

https://www.bbceng.info/additions/2016/ ... 20(WW).pdf

These are both taken from the fantastic BBC Engineering Library:

https://www.bbceng.info/Books/books.htm

This is one of my most oft-used websites.
The white sheets and schematics are priceless.
Hi, Jim.

djimbe wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:30 pm is it this place:

https://www.coutant.org/

that's where I got a lot of info on vintage mics when I was buying them