In this letter to the editor, the author comments on the story “The EV 635A Heads Into the Sunset.” Radio World welcomes letters to the editor on this or any story. Email [email protected].
Hi Paul,
I liked your Radio World article in the Sept. 10 issue about the legacy EV 635A microphone. It was no surprise to read that perhaps a million of these tough little mics heard voices around the world since 1965.
The one pictured below came to our ministry as part of a studio equipment package purchased in 1986 from Simpson College, then in San Francisco. It worked well then.
This “virtually indestructible” gem met its match, however, when it was broiled during our Paradise Fire of ’18. Its distinctive body survived, but with capsule and connectors liquefied into a glob now attached to the windscreen.
Toss it — or treasure it?
Someday it’ll work again. Maybe.
— Kenneth Boone, president, Family Programs, Inc.
[Related: “Readers Remember the EV 635A“]
