Pictured with his TELEFUNKEN M 80 mic and Gibson J-45 guitar is Guinness World Record holder Alex Carlin performing in Radomsko, Poland. (Click to Enlarge)

It is official: using a TELEFUNKEN Elektroakus-tik M 80 vocal mic and a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar, Alex Carlin performed for 32 hours, earning him the new Guinness World Record for "Longest Concert by a Solo Artist." The extended show took place at the Pub Bourbon Street, Radomsko, Poland, and broke the previous record of 27 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds by the French-Canadian known as "Gonzales" in Paris.

   By the end of his show, Carlin had performed 500 songs, including the entire Beatles catalogue, which took only 12 hours. "Around hour 12 things were getting difficult - my head felt like it was exploding and I had dark thoughts about what later hours could feel like if it was already bad like that. But soon things started getting better and better. In fact, by the moment I was beating the 27-hour record I felt great, and the last five hours were quite easy. The last hour I was feeling very strong, playing Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Metallica and my song 'No Sleep Only Rock and Roll' - high-energy stuff. I was amazed that I could still sing those kinds of vocals at the 32nd hour."

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Pictured in TELEFUNKEN's CT studios are Michael Buble and his band in a special performance for Hartford's 96.5 WTIC "Acoustic Cafe. (Click to Enlarge) Photo by Kate Jadney.

International superstar Michael Buble surprised listeners of Hartford, CT's 96.5 fm WTIC radio when he broadcast a secret show from the studios of microphone manufacturer TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik. WTIC and TELEFUNKEN co-sponsored the intimate performance, which featured stand-up bass, drums, acoustic guitar and Buble, using new microphones from the company known for mics designed in the tradition of the classic mics of the past.

The Buble show is one in a series of shows recently produced by the TELEFUNKEN staff in the company's 8000 sq.ft. manufacturing center, which includes a 2500 sq.ft. soundstage that also serves as a multi-use recording studio and production lab for its extensive microphone line.

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"Recently, I was working with the Lovell Sisters and put a pair of 260s on the dobro using the cardioid capsule and I was just stunned. I have been using my pair of vintage Neumann U-67s for years but these new mics easily did the job better than ever before."

TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik was nominated in both microphone categories of this year's Technical Excellence and Creativity (TEC) Awards, which took place on October 10 in NYC at the annual Audio Engineering Society Convention.
Studio Mics: U-48 and Sound Reinforcement Mics: M80

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Custom Ela M 251's

TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik's Custom Shop offers the recording industry our assistance in not only customizing cosmetically, but also electronically and sonically modifying our product line to your personal specifications. The new Custom Shop line of microphones, with rare vacuum tubes and capsules, are customized versions of the current product line. The brand new ELA M 251T features TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik's innovative CK-13™ capsule incorporating Alloy 2213™ to achieve greater accuracy in the low frequency ranges and an "airy" and "delicate" representation of the upper ranges. The Limited Edition U 47VC includes a newly manufactured PVC-tensioned, gold sputtered M7 capsule and a VF-14k vacuum tube. The ELA M 270 offers the same exceptional sonic performance as the ELA M 251E in a stereo package, perfectly suited for XY, M/S, or Blumlein techniques.

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