I can't afford the wonderful microphones produced by AEA, so I've been working on a ribbon microphone motor based off a combination of their specs and the original patents for the RCA 44.

Here's a short video of the ribbon tuning process from last night.

It feels very funny to own something that oozes so much “ViNtAgE tOnE.” But rubber bridge baritone with gold foil pickups does sound really nice

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