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| When you contact OktavaMod you'll reach me. Quickly. Clients say their customer service experience is just about the best they've ever had. It you ask a concise question, you'll get a quick and concise answer. If you ask more nuanced questions and provide some details of your recording life you'll get a similarly appropriate response. In some cases, my exchanges with clients have gone on for twenty or more emails - before a purchase. So I'm here whether you want a quick pricing answer or an in-depth dialog.
If you decide to go forward, you will be purchasing an OktavaMod upgrade from someone who as been modifying and upgrading Oktava microphones since they were first distributed in the US by Harris Allied in 1994 and who has been involved in pro audio as a recording and product design engineer since 1976. My love of microphones actually started in 1968 when I got my first open reel tape recorder. Some Shure 545 mics (precursor to the SM-57) followed soon after. Along the way, I've done audio product and sound design work for Stars Guitars and Haight-Ashbury Community Radio in San Francisco, the LucaFilm THX theater program, Kintek Inc., (where I studied under dbx Inc. / Earthworks Microphones founder David Blackmer) the Swedish Film Institute, the Beijing Arts Centre, Media Systems - Boston, NBC Television, Transom.org and the Public Radio Exchange. When the MK-219 appeared in the West in 1994, a high quality large diaphragm condenser microphone was within the reach of the average project studio recordist. It sold for around $550 at that time and was considered a great value at that price! Now, with the profusion of excessively bright sound-alike and look-alike Chinese copies of German designs, Oktava microphones can be considered new classics. They're not copies of anything. They're proudly different - researched, developed and manufactured in a factory in Tula, Russia that has been making high quality microphones continually for almost 80 years. I used to drive a Renault 4cv. That might tell you something about my affection for endearingly simple technology and elegant engineering. Oktava microphones embody these goals. My modding work is a labor of love. I love these little tanks of tone. To hold an Oktava microphone is to hold hands with lovers of metal and sound shaped by the resonance of time near and distant. Working on them is still a cold war catharsis. If you'd like to own a limited edition recording tool modified by a craftsman who just has an irrational love for these unique and great sounding mics, drop me a line. Michael Joly - Springfield, Massachusetts |
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