1950's Vintage Astatic 200S Crystal Bullet Microphone, Blues Harp Mic, Strong!

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Great Blues Tone, 1940's - 1950's High-Impedance Harmonica MicrophoneNice Original Astatic Model 200S Gold shell, Chrome Grill Hot MC 151 Crystal Element Booming Tone! Crunchy Distortion, Fat Bottom End Fully Tested and WorkingThis is an Astatic 200S microphone, originally built for public address systems. It's working very well, and has an attached coiled 2 foot cable. It's high impedance, and loud as hell. The acclaimed blues harp player Annie Raines uses this model microphone.This element is quite rare to find in working condition. Amazing tone, with a nice fat bottom, and screaming highs. You might consider buying this mic for the element alone!Cosmetically, it's in good shape considering it's age. Some scuffs, nicks and dirt. The grill is in excellent condition, and the gold shell paint has no significant areas of loss.The microphone has been fully tested on a Skip Simmons modified Masco MA-17 P.A. amp head driving a twin-ten cabinet with Lil' Buddy speakers. Sounds excellent. Ready for the stage.For great mics visit Simple Mics was born while researching places to buy good, vintage, bluesy microphones. And there are a lot of great places to buy them: blows me away, fat bottom mics, badass harmonica. They have been making great blues harp microphones for years, and have the experience and customers to show for it. All of those guys can play too, so they know what makes a good mic. I started studying, experimenting, making mistakes, and learning from the process. Eventually, I put together a mic from parts I bought at other harp vendors, and realized the enjoyment that comes from making something old new again.So now I rebuild classic harmonica mics for fun, and sell what I build here. And I?m serious about my fun. I rebuild microphones using the best quality new and vintage parts. Quality: I test each microphone sold, and sometimes show a video of the results. Good products, fair prices.The mics here are put together with great care, trying to maintain the highest standards out there. Many mic builders and modifiers are gracious enough to share their techniques, and listen hard to every one of them. I think you?ll be happy with the products available here. If you?re not, I?ll do everything I can to make it right.I don?t have a big shop. I have a bench in my cellar. But over time I've collected or built most of the tools needed to remanufacture bullet-style harp mics. I dig up vintage shells where I can, like garage sales, ham radio fests, ebay, or modern blues harmonica. I?ve worked hard to know where to locate good-quality vintage harp mic elements. If you know what you?re looking for, you can eventually collect a number of them, play them, and see which ones sound the best. Then you take the parts and make them better.Some shells are in pretty good shape, some are a disaster. The good ones I clean up and use as-is. The rough ones take more work, and I usually have them sandblasted and powder coated before wiring them up with a nice vintage shure controlled-magnetic or controlled-reluctance element. I try to add a volume control when I can, cause I think they?re pretty handy onstage. Then I reassemble the shell, buff it up, take some pictures and put it up here, or on this .Shipping: Getting good harp mics isn't easy, especially if you're out of the states, and shipping is painfully expensive these days. But, considering some of my best customers are on other continents (especially finland), I've decided to ship both domestically and internationally. It can be a hassle, and international shipments are regularly slowed down by customs, but i've had good luck.I ship using the united states postal service (usps). The services used are trackable using the web site at . Those fees are additional to the cost of shipping, and vary according to the specific country.Packing: Each one of my products is expertly packed and safe from the bumps, throws, and general rough handling from the shipper. I test the mics through an amp for bo... read more

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