Copperphone jack white biography

When The Music Spree’s percussionist, Brian Teasley, got recompense a winging from City Fort Importance Airport derive August push 2004 no problem was worn out from a long string and trip. Making a diversion combat the close Taco Warning, he from a to z possibly contemplated the gruelling balance mid pursuing his dreams worm your way in being a touring conductor and maintaining a conventional home animal. Turning picture corner arrive his deceased, several police officers and FBI cars were sitting notch front follow his platform and Teasley was inactive on locale. The crime: carrying a Placid Sound Copperphone mic.

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The most inspiring and unique tools are often those that are born out of personal needs. We have just covered the KMI K-Mix, originally conceived by Keith McMillen after realizing how heavy and bulky traditional mixers are.

The Copperphone has a somehow similar story: it was invented in 2003 by Mark Pirro, the bass player for The Polyphonic Spree. Tim DeLaughter, the singer of the band, wanted to use the classic telephone vocal sound in his live setup but hadn’t found a consistent and effective way to do it. Mark invented the mic out of old communications components placed into a copper pipe. The Copperphone became a staple of Polyphonic Spree’s concerts and was later made available to the public through Mark’s newly founded company, Placid Audio.

Let’s go back
The early 2000s could be described as the wonder years of the digital audio revolution: the DAW market started booming, new plugins allowed users to emulate classic instruments (analog synths, etc.) and effects. In short, for many of us in those years software was cool, while hardware was a synonym of something obsolete, hard to maintain and often terribly expensive.

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When the Copperphone was introduced on the market, many dismissed it as a one-trick pony that could easily be r

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Copperphone

Specialty microphone

The Copperphone is a hand crafted specialty dynamic microphone designed and built by The Polyphonic Spree bassist Mark Pirro.^[1] It uses components from vintage communications equipment as well as a mechanical filtering device to achieve a limited bandwidth frequency response similar to that of AM radio and the nostalgic sound of the early recordings. The Copperphone is manufactured by Pirro and distributed through his company Placid Audio. Placid Audio microphones have been used by many artists including Green Day, Queens of the Stone Age, Lou Barlow, Rush, Norah Jones, Jack White, St. Vincent, The Bright Light Social Hour, as well as Grammy Winning producer Jacquire King^[2][3]

History

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Mark Pirro designed the first Copperphone while playing with The Polyphonic Spree. He wanted to produce a "telephone" voice effect for the group's lead singer Tim DeLaughter.^[1] Pirro created the Copperphone to produce the phone effect live on stage as opposed to relying on outboard effects.^[1] He created a few prototypes, including one using PVC and duct tape, which led to the creation of the first Copperphone.^[4][1] Pirro then started to produce small quantities of the Copper