I have been using imported Verhunzen capacitors in my microphones for over 2 years. These capacitors are hand rolled from pure iron sheets and have a ferric...
I've been looking at the Peavey dynamic mic with the on/off switch. Certainly, each mic has it's good and bad points. Has anyone ever had the Peavey mic and...
Hello Everyone I hate to answer a question with more questions but, which peavey mic and what do you intend to use it for? Do you need to have an on/off...
I have a Peavey omni Condenser mic that is actually pretty good for overheads on my Kit ,I picked it up for about $10 used but I like it.... Cheers archie...
They are $150 for the smaller values. That's inexpensive for audiophile grade caps. I forgot to mention that these caps should be connected with oxygen- free...
... Well, they are inexpensive mics... We had several at a church where I ran sound for a while. They performed pretty well for what they were... yer basic PA...
A chance bit of surfing tonight led to the discovery of James West and Gerhard Sessler (Bell Labs) as the inventors of the modern Electret Microphone in 1962. ...
dear rick i remember reading somewhere that the browin tape sold as 'wondertape' is attually en electret film. they apparently charge the film so it does not...
Hey Zap! I saw a whole box full of those puppies at Apex Electronics in North Hollywood, down at the end of one of those corridors between stacked up...
Wayne, I envy you. There are still a few of those military electronics surplus stores in California and the east coast I guess. Those places are long gone from...
Thanks to Adam, his Microphone Schematic Collection has expanded. There is a lot to be learned from studying these gems. www.sdiy.org/oid/mics.html ZAP...
... in ... Buffalo ... Basicly gone here in the Boston area. Eli's, Meshna's, B&F, Poly- Packs, all gone or useless. Those Selsyn's get hot on 60Hz :)...
Scott, Where abouts are you in Boston? We have two near my office in Manchester, NH. Electronic Sales and Surplus PAR Electronics As you say, not as good as...
... What's not widely known is that ALL plastic film is electret to some extent. This is particularly so for good insulators like mylar. The manufacturing...
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There is schematic in the Nakamichi folder in the file section, "Nakamichi CM-300 with buffer". This should replace the original output transformer and raise...
Hello All I found the discussion in the posts very interesting. The following comments, taken from the posts, seem to suggest the approach I am taking (adding...
I've uploaded first samples from my prototype (basic type). The ribbon (0.6um) is lousy putted on a truss. It sounds realistic. Higher tones from a good...
I suspect that you are not happy with that 10k pot. I recommend that you replace the pot with maybe 4 double pole double throw switches that switch in, and...
Hi Rich Thanks for your input. I will give your idea a go and see how it compares with Scott's circuit for keeping DC out of the pot. Also, many thanks for...
It looks like I'm getting transformer resonance when connecting -3.8dBu signal to the secondary: http://unizet.net/pub/RibbonMeasurement1.gif Am I right?...
