Can you build a better WM55?
Hi, mstrong. I record church music, choral works and loud pipe organ. My WM55 XY mic is useful because it's diminuative enough not to intrude on the service. It also produces a strong stereo image. So
By
grendeltooth
·
#52
·
|
Re: Faint Field Microphone
Regarding connections on the capsule, i think 3-connections is the best way to go. Ground, source, and drain. In this case it's easy to use either linkwitz-mod, or any other powering method.
By
ljudatervinning <ljud.atervinning@...>
·
#51
·
|
Re: Faint Field Microphone
mstrong82 wrote: Sorry, I missed this in my last response regarding directional capsules. Bob -- "Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler." A. Einstein
By
Bob Cain <arcane@...>
·
#50
·
|
Re: Faint Field Microphone
mstrong82 wrote: The sole reason for bigger is to reduce self noise. If noise can be lowered to be in line with the larger capsules another way that would be great but theory seems to indicate
By
Bob Cain <arcane@...>
·
#49
·
|
Re: Panasonic Mic Capsule Wired to XLR Connector
ktpbeng wrote: True, my mistake, now that I re-verified it, phantom power is usually supplied over both: HOT and COLD terminals. Trust but verify. Indrek -- Indrek Rebane | Borthwick-Pignon
By
Indrek Rebane <indrek@...>
·
#48
·
|
Faint Field Microphone
You guys want to use 1/2" or bigger. I want to use 6mm and 9.7 is huge in my application, but if it were that much better I would consider it. I'll help you get bigger parts to play with. We all want
By
mstrong1
·
#47
·
|
Diaphragm material
It's called mirrorlite, i have links at the office and will find them for you.
By
mstrong1
·
#46
·
|
Re: Panasonic Mic Capsule Wired to XLR Connector
Comments interspersed: snippage all over the place... My apologies, I did not follow this thread from the beginning... it may not all be on this list! :) Someone wrote: This is NOT correct in a normal
By
ktpbeng <bblack@...>
·
#45
·
|
Re: condenser fet transisters
From: "Rich Peet" <richpeet@...> I do nature recording, and would agree in general. However, I'd like to experiment with RF mics with diaphragms larger than 1/2" as well. And various boundary
By
Walter Knapp
·
#44
·
|
Re: condenser fet transisters.
only about the last point: the sony ecm 907 and others like it have more than an inch of wire from the capsule to the fet; the nakamichi cm 300 i have sitting in front of me has a one and half inch
By
umashankar mantravadi <umashanks@...>
·
#43
·
|
Re: LOW noise-EXTREME Hi gain, RF Mic?
Andrew Burgess wrote: Right. Either approach begins to degrade high frequency performance due to coincidence considerations. I'm not sure which is easier to manage. Bob -- "Things should be described
By
Bob Cain <arcane@...>
·
#42
·
|
Re: LOW noise-EXTREME Hi gain, RF Mic?
Or adding more diaphragms. Two mics, twice the signal, noise goes up by 1.4.
By
Andrew Burgess <aab@...>
·
#41
·
|
Re: LOW noise-EXTREME Hi gain, RF Mic?
mstrong82 wrote: Ah, but therein lies the rub. From looking at noise specs for various size mics, from the experiments of one of our members, and according to:
By
Bob Cain <arcane@...>
·
#40
·
|
Re: condenser fet transistors.
When making larger microphones, I wonder how east it would be to roll your own? I took a little electret mic apart a few years back but don't recall exactly what was inside. I do recall that it was
By
Klaus Wolter
·
#39
·
|
Re: condenser fet transisters.
mstrong82 wrote: As Jerry Avins in comp.dsp is so fond of saying, "Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you have." To that end I have worked out testing and characterization
By
Bob Cain <arcane@...>
·
#38
·
|
Re: condenser fet transisters.
mstrong82 wrote: Yes, I understand that the larger you make it, the more specialized the market becomes. It's just that my interest has moved beyond tiny but noisy omni's toward much quieter first
By
Bob Cain <arcane@...>
·
#37
·
|
Re: condenser fet transisters.
mstrong82 wrote: That's just what I thought. :-) No, it is changing the configuration of the internal FET to source follower from the as-shipped common source mode. This involves cutting a trace on
By
Bob Cain <arcane@...>
·
#36
·
|
Design Photos
I am uploading some photos of designs i currently use. Upload in progress as I have to find some of the photos. I will get to my electrical designs with time as this is a work in progress. 1. Clear
By
Rich Peet
·
#35
·
|
Re: LOW noise-EXTREME Hi gain, RF Mic?
you can hear the gain up to work with. I One problem, IMHO, with the panasonics is the size of the hole in the front. It is too small and can reverberate under extremely loud sound pressure levels. If
By
dnemeth01 <dnemeth01@...>
·
#34
·
|
Spam protection
I guess I am the SPAM safeguard right now. Shortly, the group will be switched to a "restricted membership". Groups of this type get little or no spam. I will review e-mail addresses of new members
By
Rich Peet
·
#33
·
|