David Mellor is CEO and Course Director of Audio Masterclass. David has designed courses in audio education and training since 1986 and is the publisher and principal writer of Adventures In Audio.
I spotted this on the platform of a London tube station. Take a closer look...
It's a Neumann! And the text 'hier sprechen' reveals firstly its origin in Germany and second that you should actually speak here.
It's a microphone!
Well, it contains a microphone. It's an intercom, presumably for station staff to use.
The Neumann here isn't Georg Neumann GmbH of high-end studio microphone fame, but jm Neumann Elektronik GmbH. They make intercoms, and yes I did lowercase the initials correctly.
Well this might be just an intercom, and it might not be the right Neumann company, but who's to say that it might not sound interestingly lo-fi?
Perhaps an enterprising plug-in developer could give us the sound of this 'lost Neumann' that we never imagined we wanted.
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