Re: Les Watts
So sad to hear about Les. He is a legend and will be missed.
Best Regards,
Jules Ryckebusch
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Jules Ryckebusch
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#36238
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Re: Les Watts
Very sad. Now I want to make a gum foil, magnet, trans ribbon mic in his honor lol!
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Joe Diliberto
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#36237
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Re: Les Watts
This is very sad.? Les was one of the true microphone gurus.
I suddenly remember there's a load of stuff I wanted to discuss with him :(
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Richard Lee
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#36236
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Re: Les Watts
Ah, that is sad news indeed.? Les was not only one of the gurus, a *real* microphone designer, but he was willing to hang out here and answer newbie questions as well as discuss serious design
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Scott Helmke
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#36235
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Re: Les Watts
I'm very sorry to hear that. I will miss him.
wrote:
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eric benjamin
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#36234
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Re: Les Watts
Very sad news. He was a great guy and engineer.
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FAB Microphones
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#36233
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Re: Les Watts
Very sorry to hear that, and thanks for letting us know. More info on the polyribbon here <http://lmwattstechnology.com/microphone/polyribbon/polyribbonstory/The%20Polyribbon%20Story.html>. I
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Casey
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#36232
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Les Watts
Hello everyone- I¡¯m sorry to report this, but Les Watts passed away sometime last week. He was an engineer at Shure and electo-voice, and very highly skilled engineer and machinist. He designed and
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Brian Gilbert
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#36230
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Re: Zoom capsule hacking
Usually known as GX connectors.
GX12, 16 & 20, in reference to the external
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Jerry Lee Marcel
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#36229
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Re: Zoom capsule hacking
... never heard of Foster plugs ...
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Wikipedia says this:
Multi-pin circular connector (Marushin, MCC, CBC series, Foster, GX-16)
First used in the 1970s by
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Richards
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#36228
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Re: Zoom capsule hacking
I generally agree with everybody else's recommendations (ie: use something else) but I see the attraction of an "off-the-shelf" solution, especially since the mic preamps and gain control are
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Zach Poff
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#36227
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Re: Top secret Earthworks M50 capsule, or the Thunder Capsule!
maybe they just remove the high-pass filter ?
CMC 6 U linear
The CMC 6 U microphone amplifier normally has a gradual rolloff in response below 20 Hz to guard against infrasonic disturbances from
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francois
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#36226
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Re: Top secret Earthworks M50 capsule, or the Thunder Capsule!
Exactly¡ Schoeps talks about being able to slow down playback on the extended frequency range mics to allow you to cleanly hear pitched down ultrasonics.
IMHO you can grab infrasonic sound with a
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Jules Ryckebusch
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#36225
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Re: Top secret Earthworks M50 capsule, or the Thunder Capsule!
"*CMC 6 Uxt* - extends the high-frequency response of all ¡°axially addressed¡± (end-address) capsules to ~40kHz."
How can increasing the HF response help with *infra*sonics?
Subsonic is an
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Jerry Lee Marcel
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#36224
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Re: Top secret Earthworks M50 capsule, or the Thunder Capsule!
http://recordinghacks.com/microphones/Schoeps/CMC-6
mine is the xt linear but I guess a regular cmc6 can be also modified to record subsonic
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francois
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#36223
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Re: Zoom capsule hacking
High grade connectors are often listed under Aviation Connector. Like LEMO,
M12, XSn or YCn....
I've never heard "Foster Jacks", I know these radio connectors only as
XSnn, ofthe the 4pol XS12 is
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underwood
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#36222
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Re: Zoom capsule hacking
like an 'aircraft' connector ...
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I believe these are also called "Foster Plugs" and "Foster Jacks" - as in 4 or 8 pin Foster Jacks found on amateur radio
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Richards
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#36221
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Re: Top secret Earthworks M50 capsule, or the Thunder Capsule!
My understanding is that the XT has an extended HF response (up to 40kHz). When down-sampled, the LF limit of 20Hz becomes 10 or 5 Hz, but it does not have the capability of recording 10Hz or 5Hz
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Jerry Lee Marcel
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#36220
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Re: Top secret Earthworks M50 capsule, or the Thunder Capsule!
It's a special order from Schoeps done on demand. Then you have to use the cut 1 anytime you are not recording elephants or tortoise
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francois
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#36219
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Re: Zoom capsule hacking
Thanks for the replies everyone.? Yes, I already have an "extra" XYH-5 capsule, so was hoping it would be easy to use... seems not.
Main reasons I wanted to go this route were:
1) I'm already kind
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blu58spider
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#36218
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