Posted by Rich Grise, but drunk on 03/26/06 01:20

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:41:09 -0500, Jay Rose wrote:

> On 2006-03-25 15:31:34 -0500, "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> said:
>>
>>> This is a shotgun mike, there's a sketch about 1/2 way down the page:
>>> http://members.shaw.ca/roma/twenty-eight.html
>>
>> That was a crude, amateurish attempt at the technology behind a
>> line-gradient ("shotgun") microphone.
>
> IIRC, RCA had a professional directional mic back in the 50s that used
> multiple exposed tubes.


I saw one on TeeVee, in about 1955, on the intro segment of "Science
Fiction Theater". The host would kinda wander around this very
scientifical- looking lab, and in this particular ep, he wound up at the
shotgun mike, and I think the ep was about spying or something. Let's make
that 1955 +- 2; I was just a kid barely starting school, maybe first
grade, but I remember it because I was fascinated by it.

Anyways, those shotgun mikes have been around about as long as audio
electronics have been.

Cheers!
Rich
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