This is an exceedingly rare and impressive Soviet ribbon microphone, the MRTP ML11B. The ML11B is a unidirectional ribbon mic developed and produced by MRTP (Ministry of the Radio Engineering Industry), meaning they were very well made in very small quantites using the very best components to be used in the very most important and demanding applications within the Soviet Union. It is estimated that only around one hundred of these mics were manufactured. This ML11B is going to turn 70 years old next year.
There are other ML11 models, all of which are also unidirectional ribbon microphones, but with different bodies, different internals, different sized ribbons, and made by different departments (swipe to see em). The most “common”is the Oktava ML11m, and the rarest one we know of is the KINAP ML11, and it’s one of the last Soviet ribbon mics we have yet to hold in our hands. Got one? Get in touch.
