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Double Bass Vintage Shure Brothers endpin mic

orbix

orbix

Aug 19, 2005
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Denver Metro
#1
So I have a bit of a conundrum for those of you with any experience or knowledge of vintage equipment. When I bought my bass, it had an endpin mic installed (see the pictures below for clarification), which I promptly removed and used a solid endpin instead, since there was also a really nice Wilson pickup system.

I hung onto the mic out of curiosity, and was wondering if anyone knows anything about these... The bottom of the endpin looks like it should thread (or snap) into some kind of base that would presumably then have a jack to connect the mic to a preamp of sorts, but I've never seen such a thing, nor has any web research gotten me anywhere.

Anyone have any info on this thing, or suggestions on where to look?
 

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#3
It was on my 1933 Herald Jaeger DB. It had been a jazz workhorse for a long time before I got it, so I don't really know when that might have been installed. Thanks for the tip on the connector- I'll do some more general reading on older mics. I've just been floundering around since I didn't really have any context around where to start looking.
 
#4
no worries. Take a look at places like parts express and such and maybe they have the connector you're looking for as well as looking for old mics if you're handy w/a soldering iron.

I'm going to take a WAG and say that's likely a high impedance mic due to it's age so please keep that in mind when you're going to plug this into a preamp :hmm:
 
#5
Thanks for the heads up on the impedance. On the plus side, the Wilson pickup is some absurdly high impedance as well, so hopefully I can try things out with my current setup. Have you tried using that mic at all? I know it's not going to be comparable to a modern setup, but I'm more than a bit curious about the sound quality.

Actually, with the condition of the connector, I might just splice in a new jack of some form just for ease of use. Unless these are collectable, i'm inclined to go for practicality.
 

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