[mcp6453[_2_]]

If you're into this sort of thing, can you identify the mic that ABBA is using
in this video? It's from "ABBA The Movie", filmed in 1977.

A good shot is at 2:10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMyuoDFGmk

I thought it was a Beyer M400, but the grill is bright chrome in the movie.

[mcp6453[_2_]]

On 12/25/2011 11:13 PM, mcp6453 wrote:
If you're into this sort of thing, can you identify the mic that ABBA is using
in this video? It's from "ABBA The Movie", filmed in 1977.

A good shot is at 2:10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMyuoDFGmk

I thought it was a Beyer M400, but the grill is bright chrome in the movie.

I found an HD version of the movie and have confirmed that the mics are
definitely beyerdynamic mics since I can read the name on the band around the
grill. No model numbers are visible.

The closest I can come is the M500, but it seems bizarre that they would use a
ribbon mic in that environment. My best guess is that there was a dynamic mic in
that same case back in 1977 that is now discontinued. Maybe not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...j7RA#t=42 26s

[William Sommerwerck]

"mcp6453" wrote in message
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On 12/25/2011 11:13 PM, mcp6453 wrote:

If you're into this sort of thing, can you identify the mic ABBA is
using? It's from "ABBA The Movie", 1977. A good shot is at 2:10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMyuoDFGmk
I thought it was a Beyer M400, but the grill is bright chrome in the
movie.

I found an HD version of the movie and have confirmed that the mics are
definitely beyerdynamic mics since I can read the name on the band around
the grill. No model numbers are visible.

The closest I can come is the M500, but it seems bizarre that they would
use
a ribbon mic in that environment. My best guess is that there was a
dynamic
mic in that same case back in 1977 that is now discontinued. Maybe not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...j7RA#t=42 26s

At one time, Beyer made "ruggedized" ribbon mics claimed to be about as
rugged a conventional dynamic.

[hank alrich]

William Sommerwerck wrote:

"mcp6453" wrote in message
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On 12/25/2011 11:13 PM, mcp6453 wrote:

If you're into this sort of thing, can you identify the mic ABBA is
using? It's from "ABBA The Movie", 1977. A good shot is at 2:10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMyuoDFGmk
I thought it was a Beyer M400, but the grill is bright chrome in the
movie.

I found an HD version of the movie and have confirmed that the mics are
definitely beyerdynamic mics since I can read the name on the band around
the grill. No model numbers are visible.

The closest I can come is the M500, but it seems bizarre that they would
use
a ribbon mic in that environment. My best guess is that there was a
dynamic
mic in that same case back in 1977 that is now discontinued. Maybe not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...j7RA#t=42 26s

At one time, Beyer made "ruggedized" ribbon mics claimed to be about as
rugged a conventional dynamic.

The M500's are pretty tough. I still have a pair that have seen a lot of
use, and they were last reribboned, by Beyer, in 1982, after thirteen
years of almost nightly use in bars, on outdoor stages, and at AWHQ.

I bought four of them for a PA I put together in 1969, choosing them
over SM58's.

The most common failure I've met is that the glue afixing the internal
blast screen, a mesh mini-quonset hut affair, dries out and the screen
rattles around in the cage. I've reglued those several times over the
years.

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