Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
What a lovely old meter! Japanese? As used by technicians during WW2? It's essentially a 1mA meter with series resistors selected by the voltage range switch, so that at the full scale voltage, 1mA of
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Henry Spragens
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#36982
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Re: Another weird idea
" I'll see your vest and raise you a hard hat."
And I'll wave you back, mate. ;)
" I used to joke how if you put on a hard hat, hi-viz vest, steel toe boots, and carry a clipboard, you could probably
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pmfalcman
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#36981
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Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
Hi Henry. Thank you for your detailed answer!
You pointed it out very clear that my meter can¡¯t measure the voltage across the capsule with any accuracy and why. Many thanks! The meter is like an
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Heinz
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#36980
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Re: Another weird idea
Ha! Funny you should mention the hi-viz vest. I'll see your vest and raise you a hard hat. I used to work at an engine plant and had to go into construction zones regularly as part of the new model
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Mark Day
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#36979
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Re: Cheap electrets that go up to 40kHz?
I personally tested many electret capsules and if you don't need to listen to very high frequencies then EM272 easily reach 60kHz with a good sensitivity
Iv
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Ivano Pelicella
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#36978
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Re: Cheap electrets that go up to 40kHz?
Not quite.? Analogue MEMs mics - like the one I referenced to - are unbalanced devices.
I use the circuit here to interface a MEMS capsule with a phantom powered balanced mic input, to record bat
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Arjay1949
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#36977
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Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
Hi Heinz,
Troubleshooting electronics is a topic of interest to any mic builder.
How to interpret your meter test result using Ohm's law:
Battery measured directly = 6.47V
Measured with .542M in
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Henry Spragens
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#36976
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Re: Another weird idea
These are not microphones. They are just inductivecoils that pick the radiated magnetism.
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Jerry Lee Marcel
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#36975
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Re: Cheap electrets that go up to 40kHz?
Can MEMs be powered in a similar way to the "Simple P48"?
[email protected]> wrote:
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cx b
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#36974
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Re: Another weird idea
Hmmm... a guy named CASEY talking about trains ... yeah, that works !! :-)
What about a contact microphone like we used to use with telephone handsets? Or a past-on guitar or instrument pickup
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Richards
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#36973
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Re: Another weird idea
Hey, Mark.
I got this same idea (contact mic + trains) but unpopulated PCBs still lay around and look at me accusingly.
The idea of guitar pickup seems great. As already mentioned above the rails may
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pmfalcman
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#36972
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Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
Using Henry's procedures, you've been able to establish that the impedance of your meter is around 1M, not 10M as I had originally suggested as a possibility
The 35% reduction in voltage measured at
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Arjay1949
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Re: Another weird idea
Hi Mark
It depends on who you talk to. I hope it works out and you succeed! Maybe you should ask Gibson for a set of classic pickups as well. I'm not kidding. ;-)
Your story reminds me of a night
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Heinz
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Re: Another weird idea
Am 31.10.24 um 00:43 schrieb Mark Day via groups.io:
Don't. They have more than enough trouble already with people taking
nude photographs of their girlfriends on the tracks.
Railways and trains are
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Ralf R Radermacher
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#36969
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Re: Another weird idea
Good point about the rails not moving much through the magnetic field. I was actually planning on approaching the company who owns the spur line near our house and asking permission. My mentor in
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Mark Day
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#36968
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Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
I will try, but it will take some time. Many thanks!
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Heinz
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#36967
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Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
Can you check the various voltages circled in red in both cases?
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Jerry Lee Marcel
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#36966
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Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
It really looks like the problem lies elsewhere, since bias voltage is correct in both conditions.
If the capsule was leaky you would have significantly different readings.
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Jerry Lee Marcel
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Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
Hi!
I measured? the voltage at each end of the 4704 resistor and the capsule voltage in the working and non working state (viewing from the photo).
When the NT1-a is in the warm-up phase (not
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Heinz
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#36964
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Re: Rode NT1-A requires 3 minutes warm-up time
Hi Henry
Many thanks for link and the detailed instructions!
I bought the Mastech MAS830 in a real electronic shop about 35 years a
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Heinz
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#36963
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