Superb, inexpensive microphones built into 12-gauge shotgun shells

When my country band the Delorean Sisters was recording our second album, our phenomenal audio engineer Drew Guido set up a mic stand to record my acoustic guitar—and pulled out the weirdest-looking microphone I'd ever seen.

It was one of the ones you see here, made by Brad Martin of '12 Gauge Microphones'. — Read the rest