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AKG Vintage D12 Large Diaphram Dynamic Microphone - Used  From AKG

The original version of the best bass drum microphone ever made. In Used, Excellent condition

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This microphone would be wonderful in a display case but would dominate any other mic in front of a kick drum or bass cabinet. The cable has been replaced with a modern XLR connector but everything else is authentic and ready to use.

Manufacturer's Description from AKG

The D12 Dynamic Cardioid Microphone is of the moving coil operated type and has an exceptionally smooth, wide-range response. It is designed for use in mobile equipment, recording and public address work for which applications it is particularly sulted owing to its unidirectional "Cardioid" pick-up pattern which greatly reduces feedback, echoes and audience noises. 

This new microphone contains a single transducer unit only, spring suspended inside the case, and having a frequency range which, by virtue of a new patented principle, extends down to 40 c.p s. without increasing sensibillty to vibration and wind noise. 

The D 12 is a rugged, dependable instrument suitable for outdoor operation. The case is provided with a swivel joint allowing the microphone to be aimed at the source of sound for optimum pick-up. A choice of three diffe- rent threads is available for mounting the instrument. 

The standard D 12 microphone without transformer, having an impedance of approximately 60 ohms, may be connected to amplifiers having an imput impedance up to 200 ohms without in any way discurbing the frequency response.

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Around the world recording studios, radio and TV stations, opera houses and famous stages count on AKG products. Internationally known musicians and show-stars have frequently been seen using our high-quality microphones and headphones for many decades. Today AKG is one of the leading manufacturers of high-quality microphones, headphones and wireless-equipment. Listed below is the brief story of one of the most famous brands in the professional audio-world. AKG, founded in Vienna by Dr. Rudolf Goerike and Ernst Pless, soon became one of the biggest players in the world of sound. Today AKG is synonymous with good sound, stands for passion in music providing the highest quality and ongoing innovation in the world of music. The company was founded in 1947 and within months, the first AKG microphones were being used in radio stations, theatres and Jazz-Clubs. The products (the AKG DYN Series) were at that time manufactured by hand by five workers. In 1949, the first AKG headphones came on the market. Then, in the early fifties AKG made a breakthrough with several new products: Totally new technologies like the world’s first high quality condenser microphone, the D 12 with its cardioid characteristics, the world’s first remote-controlled multi-pattern capacitor microphone, the C 12 and the D 36 made acoustic history. One of the first customers of the famous C 12 microphone was the BBC in London.

Specifications

Frequency range: 40 to 12.000 cp.s.

Frequency response: 4 db max.

Directional characteristic: cardioid

Discrimination between front and rear, at all frequencies: approx. 15 db 

Effective output level: 50 dbm (referred to 1 mW and to a sound pressure of 10 dynes/cm2) 

Sensitivity: at 60 ohms open circuit -0.14 mV ub (77 db below 1 volt/dyne/cm3) 

Output impedances: 

Standard D 12: 60 ohms 

D 12/250, D 12/500, D 12/HI: with built-in matching transformer:  choice of 250, 500 ohms or high impedance