In message , Keith G
writes


Ah, I wish you hadn't asked that one! It's a tiddly little 'tieclip
microphone' (Vivanco EM216) that Glenn booth virtually gave to me (remember
him?) to record Swim's piano playing - I lobbed him a couple of nice 50s
Jazz dupes for it. I could do with a better mic for this sort of thing -
anyone see summat suitable/cheap on eBay atm?

(Those clips needed to be open mic for the purpose I needed them and
particularly to 'illustrate', as far as is poss, the Dynavox amp.)





For 'reference' recording (in the absence of very costly B&K
microphones) the very reasonably priced ECM8000 does nicely, although
you will need a balanced input preamp with a 24V phantom feed, but I can
send you a simple schematic using an SSM2019 (or SSM2017) for that.

Whatever you do, don't use an ordinary mic intended for vocals. They
have a (deliberately) very far from flat response.
--
Chris Morriss