Frank Sinatra – Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! And More (Remastered / Expanded Edition)

Used for Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!, as is visible in the album artwork (which is a photo of one of the album's sessions) and this photo. Despite the front of the microphone (which can be used to tell the 251 and 250 apart, let alone the E and non-E versions) not being visible, testimony to the microphone being a 251 E is given in this October 20, 2015 Recording.org forum post by user DonnyThompson.

I've actually had the fortune to have used an original early 60's ELA-M 251 E ... Once.

I was called in as a hired-gun engineer to work a recording session at a studio in Youngstown, Ohio a few years ago, ( Peppermint Recording - they'd been around for YEARS... I don't know if it's even there anymore, but when I was there it was like I was walking back into 1975 - yellow shag carpet, bean bag chairs, day-glo posters and all - LOL - it had definitely seen better days, though) and the owner of the studio had two ELAM's, both 251-E's.

When I asked him how he got them, he told me that he had purchased them in the mid 70's from Capitol Records Recording Studios in L.A. - for next to nothing - he mentioned paying something ridiculous, like $800 for BOTH. ( So...how come I can't ever run across incredible deals like that??? ).

With one of the mics, the mic itself worked fine, but the PS was fried, but the other one he had was fully operational with both the mic and the PS.

The owner had a picture hanging in his control room of an early 1960's Frank Sinatra singing into an ELA-M. ( He told me that he had been told by one of the older engineers at Capitol that the mic in the photo was one of the ones he purchased... although there's no actual way to prove that...but I suppose it's possible).