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Microphone guru David Bock wears rubber gloves all the time. Sometimes he’s slicing raw fish for one spectacular item in a multicourse gourmet dinner. Sometimes he’s doing final assembly and testing on a production run of microphones. Filmmaker Alain Le Kim intercuts scenes from kitchen to workshop to establish the point. The omnipresent rubber gloves […]

Brief recap of Winter NAMM 2010

TransAudio Group, distributor of high-end pro audio gear, put on its first “Audio Underground Roadshow” in early September. I wrote at the time about an exciting new microphone that was unofficially introduced there — David Bock’s model 507 elliptical-capsule tube microphone — but never circled back to write about the rest of the show. So, […]

Attendees of TransAudio Group’s first Audio Underground Roadshow, held at John B.’s The Hangar studio in Sacramento last weekend, were treated to the first public demonstration of a fabulous new microphone from Bock Audio. Bock’s new model 507 microphone won’t be officially announced until AES in October, which is why I’m staying up half the […]