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Most MX400 series gooseneck microphones are mounted to a lectern, pulpit, or tabletop.  On occasion, a customer requests a method for mounting an MX400 to a mic floor stand.  Here are three suggested methods.  Each method employs an MX400 series model that has a cylindrical preamp permanently attached to the gooseneck. See photo below. MX400 series gooseneck microphone Method 1: Use the A57F stand adapter The preamp section of the MX400 has a diameter of 0.75 inch.  By happy coincidence,… -more-

A letter from Lieutenant Marshall Levin, son of Lena Levin, who was assembling microphones for oxygen masks on the Pilot Line in 1944, read: Dearest Mom:It was sure a surprise to hear that you are working at a war job. If that is what you want to do, and it isn’t too hard on you, I say more power to you. My oxygen mask has a Shure microphone in it. When I got it, I wondered how it would stand… -more-

Inside the cockpit of a World War II military plane, the noise was deafening. Whirling propellers and roaring engines made it all but impossible for the flight crew to communicate with each other as well as with other aircraft and military command centers. Conventional microphones could not easily distinguish the background noise from the voices of the crew. The solution was an innovative throat microphone, the T-30, that Shure began manufacturing in 1942. These small, sensitive devices were sewn into… -more-

On July 5, 1952, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then Supreme Commander of NATO forces, came to Chicago to present Sergeant Leonard A. Funk with a Medal of Honor at a luncheon. In the photo, General Eisenhower salutes Sergeant Funk, a member of the 83rd Airborne Division. A Medal of Honor winner and the President of the United States are the only persons who rate a salute from a five-star general. The primary microphone used in the ceremony was the Unidyne.… -more-

We have enabled Einstein Case Classification to help with filling out fields on the case. Hopefully this will reduce the time it takes to fill out these fields. After opening the case, click on “Einstein Recommendations Available”. Any field that has a Green Dot next to it has been processed by Einstein. Clicking the dropdown, Einstein will show the top 3 selections that it thinks apples to this case. You will need to click the correct selection, even if that… -more-

When United States Signal Corps inspectors approved the T-17 Microphone made by Shure in 1942, Shure officially “joined the Army.” The change was aptly described as “the factory taking office civilians and putting on an Army uniform.” Shure production lines were redesigned for new products and higher production levels. New equipment was installed for designing, testing, and manufacturing new products. Company policies and regulations all reflected the new military discipline. This paved the way for the Shure T-17 to roll… -more-

In 1925, Western Electric Research Laboratories and the engineering division of American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) merged to create Bell Telephone Laboratories. The ownership of Bell Labs was shared between Western Electric and AT&T. The principal work of the Labs was to design and support the telephone equipment Western Electric manufactured for Bell System companies. At its peak, Bell Labs developed a wide range of revolutionary technologies, including radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, information theory, the UNIX operating system,… -more-

For Shure engineers in the 1960s, creating a better phonograph cartridge required finding an album that would test the ability of a cartridge to retrieve all the sound, or “information,” contained in the grooves of a record. A good “test” record would provide a wide range of sound—loud and soft as well as low frequencies and high frequencies— allowing the engineers to quantitatively measure the maximum velocity at which the stylus tip could trace the audio signal before it started… -more-

On December 20, 1916, inventor Edward C. Wente, employed by Bell Labs, applied for a U.S. utility patent. His device was a new type of telephone transmitter, i.e., a condenser microphone. Four years later, Wente received his patent. Patent drawing for the condenser microphone, 1916 In the early 1920s, Bell Labs, in conjunction with its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric, began developing designs for recording studios with electronics at the heart of their recording process. Such studios would soon replace acoustical… -more-

In 1933, Shure started publishing The Shure Technical Bulletin, the earliest publication devoted to the “advancement of microphone technique,” which addressed audio reproduction and sound installation. Similar bulletins continue to be published by Shure in 2000, covering a broad range of topics involving the application of sound technology. The first issue of The Shure Technical Bulletin, published in 1933, compares condenser microphones with the two-button carbon microphone. Ralph Glover, Shure’s Chief Engineer in the 1930s, was the principal author of… -more-