Author Topic: Microphone Question (Read 2440 times)

chris319 · « **on:** March 28, 2006, 05:37:53 AM »

I'm usually pretty good at this but this one's got me stumped.

What was the make and model of the handheld microphone used on Child's Play?

tvrandywest · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2006, 05:49:31 AM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'114417\' date=\'Mar 28 2006, 02:37 AM\'] I'm usually pretty good at this but this one's got me stumped.
What was the make and model of the handheld microphone used on Child's Play?
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Photo, please.

Randy
tvrandywest.com

chris319 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 28, 2006, 06:19:31 AM »

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Photo, please.

I wish I could find one on the web. It was seen in a clip which ran in prime time about two or three weeks ago on a funniest-moments show. Bill is interviewing a young fellow with it. It looked similar to a Shure SM-63 but without the curvy profile. Of course I could be suffering from middle-age dementia and it could actually have been an SM-63.

http://www.shure.com/microphones/models/sm63.asp

Chief-O · « **Reply #3 on:** March 28, 2006, 07:10:55 AM »

I swear, I'm such a geek.

It was an EV DO-56. Pretty darn obscure thing.

chris319 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 28, 2006, 07:52:43 AM »

That's the one! Nice call!

Here is a data sheet for the DO-56 and the RE-18:

http://www.coutant.org/data/re18do56.pdf

It looks like these both have pretty sophisticated internal shock mounting. It's a shame they're not made any more; I suspect E-V dropped them after one production run. The RE-18 was used for a while on Family Feud. I still see it in use regularly by the Washington press corps. For whatever reason the DO-56 never supplanted the ubiquitous RE-50, which is still in production (but only comes in black).

FOXSportsFan · « **Reply #5 on:** March 28, 2006, 01:19:12 PM »

Chief-o, that's a familiar microphone to the Philly market...FOX 29 throughout the 80s and into...sheesh...prolly 2000 used that mic almost exclusively for field reports.

chris319 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 28, 2006, 06:16:53 PM »

[quote name=\'FOXSportsFan\' post=\'114463\' date=\'Mar 28 2006, 10:19 AM\']
Chief-o, that's a familiar microphone to the Philly market...FOX 29 throughout the 80s and into...sheesh...prolly 2000 used that mic almost exclusively for field reports.
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Jim, anyone who Knows His Microphones will go a long way on this board :-)