Great question: One of our members, Scott Helmke, designed?a simple (but excellent) version of the Schoeps circuit for use in microphones using??. He called it the "" It was the first?mic I built?and discovered how good a DIY mic could be. I updated the circuit adding in a 1Meg Pot to bias the fet and called it the "Pimped Alice". I also wrote up an instructable on a mic build using a different capsule, the . When I designed?an Ambisonic Mic I asked Scott if I could call it the Ambi-Alice. Then when I came up with the OPA based mic, I asked him if I could call it the OPA Alice.?