Midnight Special 70’s TV…piano miking

studer58 🎙️ · 1st March 2025

Randy Newman’s unlidded grand, live 1974….any ideas on the mics used, and where ?

Every song has its day….even 50+ years later….now, stay on-topic y’all 😄

https://youtu.be/olOk5cK4lqQ?si=hkSE0B502GvROqQ4

wildplum · 1st March 2025

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Originally Posted by studer58 ➡️

Randy Newman’s unlidded grand, live 1974….any ideas on the mics used, and where ?

Every song has its day….even 50+ years later….now, stay on-topic y’all 😄

https://youtu.be/olOk5cK4lqQ?si=hkSE0B502GvROqQ4

maybe one of those fancy bar things that clip onto the underside of the piano (don't remember the name)?

M50k · 1st March 2025

It's seen at the very end; mic hanging directly above.

Was Midnight Special one of the shows simulcast in stereo?; I seem to remember that either it or Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (or both) was/were.

Mic looks like maybe an RE20?

studer58 🎙️ · 1st March 2025

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…..Mono TV, surely a single mic; looks like maybe an RE20 ?

Yes, it looks like an RE20, or maybe an AKG stereo mic ? Didn’t Midnight Special co-broadcast stereo via affiliate chain FM radio stations ?

M50k · 1st March 2025

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Originally Posted by studer58 ➡️

Yes, it looks like an RE20, or maybe an AKG stereo mic ? Didn’t Midnight Special co-broadcast stereo via affiliate chain FM radio stations ?

I don't think any stereo mics of the time were end-firing; AKG certainly wasn't.

Peller · 11th March 2025

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I don't think any stereo mics of the time were end-firing; AKG certainly wasn't.

AKG did make an end-firing Mid-Sides version of the C34 for broadcast use. I had one. But it doesn't look like that.

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