The evolution of DPA Microphones and their incredible sound

DPA Microphones is one of the most well-known microphone brands on the planet and for good reason! Bo Brinck from DPA visited us in Bristol's iconic St George's Church Concert Hall to explain the history of DPA and what makes their microphones so unique.
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00:00 - How DPA started
03:35 - DPA's pressure or omni microphones
06:53 - The development of directional or cardioid microphones
09:07 - Shrinking the size of DPAs mics - 4060
12:03 - DPA mics in the film industry
13:32 - What makes DPA mics such high quality
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I owned a sizeable collection of high end microphones and preamps and among those, 6 DPAs, four of which were 130V. They are clean and they handle high SPL easily, but they are dull mics. Invariably we would try the DPAs on instruments, and would always prefer the sound of our Schoeps, AKGs and Neumanns. Even an SM57 is livelier and more engaging. I think that the problem is the small capsule. Don't get me wrong ; I'm not into colouration... but given a fairly neutral, noise-free and low distortion mic, there is a huge difference in how sympathetically a mic's capsule engages with the sound radiating from a voice or instrument, and it always seemed to me that DPAs strip away all vibrancy from instruments.