Custom Brushed Chrome Astatic JT30 Microphone, 1953 Shure Black Label Element

Description: This Thing Rips! Gritty Distortion! Really Strong! – High-Impedance Harmonica Microphone – Vintage 1950’s Shure 99H86 Controlled Reluctance Element – Marine-grade Stainless Steel Grill Mesh – White Polyester Grill Cloth – Fully Tested and WorkingThis is a rare brushed chrome JT-30-style shell, with an original vintage gloss Astatic JT-30 chrome grill. Strong Shure Controlled Magnetic element. Newly rewired, with a Amphenol (Switchcraft) screw-on cable connector and a new JL Spoor custom element gasket.You’ll be really impressed with this element. It surprised me how great the tone and power were when I built it. The early 1950’s produced great elements.This is a Shure Black Label element, though the label itself is missing. It was built between 1949 and 1953. You can tell the vintage and model by looking at the bobbin color, which is maroon, instead of the white plastic of later controlled magnetic elements. And this element is really strong and punchy. Great distortion when cupped hard.Excellent cosmetic condition, Ballsy tone. Minor chrome imperfections, but you have to look very close! Please do. For more great mics visit simplemics.com Simple Mics was born while researching places to buy good, vintage, bluesy microphones. And there are a lot of great places to buy them: blows me away, fat bottom mics, badass harmonica. They have been making great blues harp microphones for years, and have the experience and customers to show for it. All of those guys can play too, so they know what makes a good mic. I started studying, experimenting, making mistakes, and learning from the process. Eventually, I put together a mic from parts I bought at other harp vendors, and realized the enjoyment that comes from making something old new again. So now I rebuild classic harmonica mics for fun, and sell what I build here. And I?m serious about my fun. I rebuild microphones using the best quality new and vintage parts. Quality: I test each microphone sold, and sometimes show a video of the results. Good products, fair prices. The mics here are put together with great care, trying to maintain the highest standards out there. Many mic builders and modifiers are gracious enough to share their techniques, and listen hard to every one of them. I think you?ll be happy with the products available here. If you?re not, I?ll do everything I can to make it right. I don't have a big shop. I have a bench in my cellar. But over time I've collected or built most of the tools needed to remanufacture bullet-style harp mics. I dig up vintage shells where I can, like garage sales, ham radio fests, ebay, or modern blues harmonica. I've worked hard to know where to locate good-quality vintage harp mic elements. If you know what you?re looking for, you can eventually collect a number of them, play them, and see which ones sound the best. Then you take the parts and make them better. Some shells are in pretty good shape, some are a disaster. The good ones I clean up and use as-is. The rough ones take more work, and I usually have them sandblasted and powder coated before wiring them up with a nice vintage shure controlled-magnetic or controlled-reluctance element. I try to add a volume control when I can, cause I think they're pretty handy onstage. Then I reassemble the shell, buff it up, take some pictures and put it up here, or on my site, simplemics.com. Shipping: Getting good harp mics isn't easy, especially if you're out of the states, and shipping is painfully expensive these days. But, considering some of my best customers are on other continents (especially Finland), I've decided to ship both domestically and internationally. It can be a hassle, and international shipments are regularly slowed down by customs, but I've had good luck. I ship using the United States Postal Service (USPS). The services used are trackable using the web site at usps.com. Those fees are additional to the cost of shipping, and vary according to the specific country. Packing: Each one of my products is expertly packed and safe from the bumps, throws, and general rough handling from the shipper. I test the mics through an amp for both general function and looking for the best tone. Use it to ask me any question, especially before you click buy it now. I'll get back to you soon as I can.

Price: 462 USD

Location: Newbury, Massachusetts

End Time: 2025-01-05T16:56:31.000Z

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