{"id":197,"date":"2010-06-29T11:44:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-06-30T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:25:58","slug":"restored-rca-bk-5a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Restored RCA BK-5A"},"content":{"rendered":"

The RCA BK-5A ribbon mike is back in my hands.\u00a0 Here is a before picture, followed by some after pics.\u00a0 The mike was sanded and repainted to the original colour.\u00a0 The ribbon was completely missing inside the mike (which is what I suspected - I couldn't find one when I took it apart), so Clarence cut a new one and installed it according to the original RCA specification (size, tension, etc.).\u00a0 He put on a new cable since the old one was cracking up.\u00a0 The little screws were mostly missing, and the ones that were there were stripped, so they were all replaced.\u00a0 I didn't have the original shock mount, so Clarence supplied a reproduction shock mount that looks like the original.\u00a0 This mount was pretty expensive, but what are you gonna do.\u00a0 He supplied the knurled knobs for the mount, but unfortunately the threads on the mike are kind of screwed up - somebody must have cranked on the wrong size thread.\u00a0 So I'm not sure how to fix that. I had the little RCA medallion and so that is glued back on.\u00a0 It looks pretty good, and now it's time to check how it sounds.<\/p>\n

Read more on ribbon mikes here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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RCA BK-5A before restoration<\/p><\/div>\n

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RCA BK-5A after restoration<\/p><\/div>\n

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RCA BK-5A after restoration<\/p><\/div>\n

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RCA BK-5A after restoration<\/p><\/div>\n

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RCA BK-5A with blast screen.<\/p><\/div>\n

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RCA BK-5A with blast screen.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RCA BK-5A ribbon mike is back in my hands.\u00a0 Here is a before picture, followed by some after pics.\u00a0 The mike was sanded and repainted to the original colour.\u00a0 The ribbon was completely missing inside the mike (which is what I suspected – I couldn’t find one when I took it apart), so Clarence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,51,3],"tags":[57,64],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-recording","category-the-cave","tag-rca-bk-5a","tag-ribbon-mike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavemusic.ca\/caveblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}