I spent a lot of time on both sides of studio microphones in my early working life. First I was a studio broadcast engineer for the BBC in London, then moved to Swaziland (now Eswatini) for a couple of years where I continued broadcast engineering while also reading radio news bulletins, my English accent landing me the additional job. The 3 Legged Thing Annie takes me back a few years – actually a few decades, to a time when radio news bulletins were written out on paper using an antiquated machine called a typewriter.
I’m pleased that not much has changed and that Annie works on the same principles. It’s as highly effective as the studio microphone arms of yesteryear. Considering 3 Legged Thing’s habit of naming its products after legends of music, you might wonder if this studio arm is named after Annie Lennox of Eurythmics and solo fame, or maybe even after the hit musical, Annie Get Your Shotgun Mic.
