That microphone wasn’t introduced until 1965. Can movies like this please hire music people who know what they’re doing??
Timothée Chalamet on the set of Bob Dylan biopic
Will Stratton
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Will Stratton
@columnatedrunes
- Replying to @columnatedrunes"What if this scene is set in or after 1965?" Then the costuming is wrong, and he is still singing into the wrong microphone. I know these details don't matter to a lot of people, and that's fine! I like a well-researched film, especially if it's about a pivotal cultural figure.
- As a sometime mixing and mastering engineer, I am compelled to argue that audiophiles are some of the first world’s most insufferable rubes.
- Replying to @columnatedrunes(I said the Sony C38 wasn't *introduced* until 1965. It wouldn't be widely available in the USA until later. And as a phantom powered mic, it certainly wouldn't be used in live settings until much later--the condensers you see on stage at Newport had external power supplies)
- Replying to @columnatedrunesBeyond all that, there are hundreds (thousands?) of photographs of Bob Dylan singing into different microphones from this era. Why choose a microphone Dylan was never photographed singing into, and was never in wide use in the United States during this time?
- Replying to @DineshDSouzaThe name D'Souza is a compression of the terms "De" (Latinate: of) and "Sousaphone." Hence you are by definition a relative of the tuba
- An update from the man himself (glad I asked!):
Do you think Van Dyke Parks would do some spoken word on my album if I asked nicely - Replying to @ScottWalkerYou are what you eat. What I'm trying to say is: you are approximately 18,980 ham sandwiches, my man
- I kind of wish Twin Peaks was 100% just about this guy going fishing, getting groceries, that kind of thing
- Replying to @yourCheriseAmorI get what you're saying, but there are plenty of period-correct microphones available at any given time--the other one in this shot is fine!
