Hey, here's my quick and dirty page on Reslo ribbon mics.

These mics are from the early 1960s. The Beatles - you know the band that Paul McCartney was
in before Wings? - actually recorded some stuff on the larger version of these Reslo mics.

Anyhow, I bought some from a USA dealer who apparently bought a boatload of NOS Reslo RBH
mics. These have the 30ohm or HiZ outputs only, which is probably why they sat around long
enough to make it to the 1990s and get sold in the USA as a one time only surplus closeout
deal. I dunno.

Anyhow, I thought that a ribbon mic like this, at the inexpensive price they were being offered
up for was either a misprint, or else something that I ought to buy. I mean, hey, it is a ribbon
mic!! Anyhow, I've had them for about a decade now, geez is it that long, and I finally got around
to opening up the shells and seeing what is inside. I intended to install the two bits of felt and
the one bit of treated cloth that is used to block the HF coming into the rear of the ribbon.
That makes it "cardioid" - yeah right. Well the old typewritten, mimeographed (remember that?)
sheet says that it increases "discrimination" for rear radiation.

Well. SURPRISE! What is obviously the front of the mic housing has the magnet end of the
mic assembly showing. Meaning that the things were both installed BACKWARDS! Heh heh...
Ok, this isn't clear from the pix - the pix are labeled with respect to the mic ELEMENT, not the mic CASE...

Here's the pix:

And the other one...  the whole ribbon itself is maybe 1.25" long I think... and not very wide at all.
I think the fabric in front is killing the HF response, as is the transformer - especially run
into HiZ... but it doesn't sound half bad.  Prox effect is not that large on voice, btw.

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