Sylvia Massy's Mind-Blowing Microphone Museum! The Incredible Evolution of the Microphone

Sylvia Massy shows some of the most compelling, interesting, and extremely rare mics in her collection while sharing stories about the first 100 years of microphone development. And, she's going to let us hear some of her classic mics in action.

In addition to owning the largest microphone collection in the world, Sylvia maintains the world's largest library of original microphone documentation and supporting materials. She keeps over 1000 unique vintage microphone models in her studio and that's only a portion of her entire collection, which contains several historically significant and unusual microphones that simply don't exist anywhere else.

This special recording of an online presentation via Zoom to the AES PNW Section was recorded on August 25, 2020.

This presentation is a unique opportunity to see and learn about some extremely fascinating and rare microphones, from one-of-a-kind prototypes to industry changing — Marconi-Reisz carbons to original Telefunkens, Neumann Gefells, to Amelia Earhart's Western Electric, from the Rauland Duo 1247 to the MGM church, and pretty much everything in between. You might use microphones every day in your job, but you've never seen anything like this!

About our Presenter

She's the unpredictable producer and engineer renowned for her work with Tool, System of a Down, Johnny Cash and Prince. She's received over 25 gold and platinum records including awards for her work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sevendust and Tom Petty. She's also an accomplished fine artist, a published columnist, in-demand educator, and relentless entrepreneur. But to her many friends, she's just Sylvia, the Radiant Being.
Sylvia's recent book, Recording Unhinged, dares you to abandon safe record-making, to get out from behind the windshield, stick your head out the sunroof, and put the pedal to the metal! Sylvia Massy and her cohort of celebrity music industry producers, engineers, and recording stars discard fixed notions about how music should be recorded. They explore techniques that fall outside the norm and yield emotionally powerful, incredibly personal, gut-wrenching, and even scary recordings.

About this meeting:

It set the record for attendance for any PNW AES meeting, at 664 tickets reserved, and 400 actual attendees. Ticket requests came from 29 U.S. States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, and 32 other countries from around the world. It's difficult to tell completely who was at the meeting, but we know there were people from

Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Montana
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Washington, D.C.
Wisconsin
Wyoming

and

Alberta, Canada
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
British Columbia, Canada
Colombia
Ecuador
England
India
Indonesia
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Portugal
Qatar
Saskatoon, Canada
Scotland

Thanks to the miracle of analytics, we know that the city with the most attendees was Los Angeles, CA (!), and the second was Mexico City, Mexico(also !).

Part 2 of the meeting, which was a spirited open forum among our remaining attendees, is posted at https://youtu.be/nPz1QQY8dXA

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