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Here are two slightly different views of my Electro-Voice DL-42 shotgun dynamic microphone. I think this model was manufactured in the 1970s. It is similar in appearance to the older 642 which won an Academy Award in 1963 for technical achievement.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI’ve always wondered about why shotgun mikes have the extremely long tubular appearance.
Do they have a really long ribbon element, rather than a diaphragm or something?
you can’t pull the wool over my thighs, leatherman. what is this the “Liars Club”??? we all know what a curling iron looks like.
you’re on the crystal shotgun microphone right now
“johnny carson microphone”
When do curling irons have XLR connectors on them?
i just realized i have been trying to jerri curl my hair with a shotgun mic for the last 26 years.
what can i say? my pre-teen years were spent playing with mercury and lawn darts.
If you are dumb enough to think that a DL-42 is a hair curler then no wonder your sex life is so pathetic! (I can tell by the tone of your comments)
I have two (wanting to sell) and they do their job to near perfection. They are usable in many different set ups. I used them for year doing live recording of various stage events.
then maybe you can explain to me why anyone would sneak two curling irons on a stand into a concert and point them at the stage???
I don’t mind if someone thinks a DL-42 is a curling iron.
i guess i will come clean here, i pleasure myself by making dumb innocently provocative comments, and a complete lack of self-esteem makes it all too easy.
a great man once said;
“he who makes a beast of himself takes away the pain of being a man”
As I remember, this microphone came with a 5 pound donut magnet mounted around the barrel inside of the shock mount.
im wondering.. is it a good microphone to record sounds outside? for exemple the rain or birds..
did anyone find a windscreen that fit on this microphone ?
Searched Electro-Voice DL42 and found your page..
Thousands of often unique and scientifically important recordings were recorded with one of these in South America for LSU, and Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology by the late Theodore Parker. They can be heard at the Macaulay Library. Ted died when the plane carrying him and the rest of his Conservation International Rapid assessment team, crashed in the Andes in August of 1993.
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/remembering-ted-parker