[BC] Equipment Hall Of Fame

[ChuxGarage@aol.com]

>Anyone recall the year at NAB that EV was displaying the 635A as  a hammer
>for nails?




For years, the Electro-Voice internal newsletter was called "The Buchanan  
Hammer." EV was headquartered in Buchanan, Michigan, and the "hammer"  was one 
of their very durable microphones.  I think they were actually  referring to 
the EV 664, which was probably their most popular PA mic. during  the 60's & 
70's.  Nonetheless, all of their mics were extremely  durable.
 
When I was in college, I worked part time at KRLD-TV (Dallas) in the  news 
department.  One day when our crew was in an extreme hurry to get  news film 
back to the station, we just threw the equipment in the back  seat of the car.  
It was dark and very hard to see what you were  doing.  Unfortunately,  the 
broadcast gray EV 635 never made it inside  the car and got dragged along hanging 
by just the cord, which was sandwiched in  the door jamb of the car. Nobody 
discovered the problem until we'd returned  to the station's parking garage and 
tried to unload all the equipment from the  car.  The mic no longer looked 
pretty, but amazingly enough it still  worked.  We used it for the rest of the 
weekend.
 
If I recall correctly, it was sent back to the EV factory for refurbishing,  
which EV did at no charge.   

Chuck  Conrad
KZQX Radio
_www.kzqx.com_ (http://www.kzqx.com/)  




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