This month, we helped design the back page for the upcoming issue of Performer magazine and their “Gear Flashback” series. What better place to start than with a mic we know a little something about, the AKG C 414?.

Below is a sneak peak of some of the outtakes from that photo shoot. The good people at the legendary Sear Sound were kind enough to let us snap some photographs of their extensive microphone collection.

Their studio is virtually a working museum of some them best and most esoteric microphones in history, and they’re kept in continuous working order by a regular staff.

Photographer Garrett Shore took these stunning high-resolution images, including a photo of the coveted AKG C 12, which turns 60 this year. Look for a story on that, coming soon.