{"id":166,"date":"2010-04-26T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T19:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-04-26T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:13:48","slug":"rca-bk-5a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"RCA BK-5A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By really dumb luck, I happened to get my hands on an RCA BK-5A, a classic old ribbon microphone from about 1955.\u00a0 A friend of mine had it stashed away in a closet for years and I told him I'd be happy to take it off his hands and get in working order again. It's in rough shape cosmetically and the ribbon is missing. From what I've heard about this mike it's going to be a great addition to the mike complement in my studio.\u00a0 Here is a link to some information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coutant.org\/rcabk5\/index.html\">RCA BK-5A<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found a few places that do restorations on ribbon mikes.\u00a0 They all seem to be pretty well regarded, but I decided to go with <a href=\"http:\/\/enakmic.com\/\">ENAK Microphone Repair<\/a>.  The guy there has apparently worked for RCA beginning about 1952, and has been doing high quality restorations for years.\u00a0 I look forward to getting it back and trying it out on vocals and various instruments.\u00a0 I'll put up some pictures of it in a later post, and perhaps some audio clips too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_170\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170  \" title=\"RCA-BK5A-1\" src=\"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_4190-col3.jpg\" alt=\"RCA BK-5A before restoration.  \" width=\"415\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_4190-col3.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_4190-col3-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_4190-col3-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCA BK-5A before restoration.  <\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_172\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172  \" title=\"RCA-BK5A-2\" src=\"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3060-col.jpg\" alt=\"RCA BK-5A prior to restoration. \" width=\"415\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3060-col.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3060-col-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3060-col-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCA BK-5A before restoration.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_178\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178  \" title=\"RCA-BK5A-3\" src=\"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_4220-size.jpg\" alt=\"RCA Bk-5A before restoration.  It looks like the ribbon is missing.  \" width=\"691\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_4220-size.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_4220-size-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_4220-size-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCA BK-5A before restoration.  It looks like the ribbon is missing.  <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By really dumb luck, I happened to get my hands on an RCA BK-5A, a classic old ribbon microphone from about 1955.\u00a0 A friend of mine had it stashed away in a closet for years and I told him I&#8217;d be happy to take it off his hands and get in working order again. 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