Cory Kaseman Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 I was flipping channels just now and came across an episode on the US version of top gear, featuring an interview with tony hawk. I'll admit, I was watching on a small, standard definition TV, but it looked like he was wearing a lav that didn't have a wire connecting it to a transmitter. It was a pill shaped mic, clipped just above his sternum, on a plain black t shirt, with no button holes or anything to slip a wire through. I got up close to the screen and squinted as hard as I could, but I couldn't see a wire anywhere. can anyone tell me what this might have been? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek H Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 The rode pin mic maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Not sure I follow your description. Could it be something like a ricsonix/rode pin mic? http://rodemic.com/microphone.php?product=pinmic http://www.atscomms.com/Sales/Products/Mics/Pin_Mic/pin_mic.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Kaseman Posted May 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 thanks. it must be a pin mic with some sort of pill shaped windscreen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Tanenbaum, CAS Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 How old was the program? If the mike looked to be about 1/2-inch in diameter, and 1/4-inch tall, with a metallic grey finish and a pattern of holes on the front like a salt shaker, it may have been an old Electro-Voice CO-85. The capsule has a pin with 2 contacts that plugs into a flat pack behind the fabric. They saved my posterior many years ago when I had to radio mike Jodie Foster and Dennis Hopper who were both wearing aluminized asbestos fire-fighters suits. Fortunately, the suits had a black snap on one side of the collar. I used a black marker on the capsules and now the suits had "snaps" on both sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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