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NEW MIKES TO BE USED FOR OPERA BY NBCI
NKW YORK. Oct. 10 — Metropolitan Opera, carried to the radio audience for the first time la^f year over National Broadcasting Company networks, will be broadcast again this year, and with greater fidelity than ever before through the use of the new velocity or "ribbon" microphones, M H. Aylesworth. president of NBC said recently
These new microphones which will be used regularly by the NBC for the first time at the opera broadcasts, starting late in November, were recently perfected by the RCA-Victor Company and are far ahead of the present standard microphones in fidelity of sound reproduction Aylesworth e x plained.
O. B. Hanson, NBC manager of technical operation and engineering, has been experimenting with the new microphones for several months, Aylesworth said, and they will be utilized on a regular series first at the Metropolitan Opera Mouse in New York City.
Unlike existing types, the veloc
The New Velocity Microphone, To Be Used by the National Broadcasting Company for the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts of the 1932-33 Season.
ity microphone utilizes a sensitive ribbon of duralumin, instead of a diaphragm, the engineer said. This ribbon, two ten thousandths of an inch thick, vibrates exactly with the minute variations of the air particles set in motion by the sound waves.
Triumphal Return of
GRAND OPERA BROADCASTS
Return of RADAMES, Oct. II of AID A
RIVALLING Radames, Grand Opera Broadcasts soon will return triumphantly to the air. For these most exacting of all broadcast pickups, NBC engineers are planning this year to use the new Velocity Microphones. This decision was made after careful comparative tests had clearly indicated the greatly increased
fidelity of reproduction which these new microphones make possible. The enthusiasm with which NBC engineers have accepted these new microphones is not exceptional— it is typical of the unqualified approval expressed by all of the engineers and artists who have had an opportunity to hear the fine reproduction provided by Velocity Microphones.
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