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Re: Re: Your homemade quick parabolic mic.

Subject: Re: Re: Your homemade quick parabolic mic.
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:55:36 -0400

Dan Dugan wrote:
>>I've thought of hooking up the Marshall mics I have with a larger
>>parabola. They have a 1" diaphragm. And are a modern studio mic, not too
>>noisy. Might get some interesting lower frequency stuff that way.
>>
>>Walt
>
>
> My intern Zach modified his Marshalls to be tube mics with plans
> published in Tape Op magazine and a kit designed by Royer. I gave him
> a hard time about faddism, so he did one of his pair first, and we
> compared them. The tube mod was quieter. Of course, it requires an
> ammo box AC supply...

That's a big disadvantage. I'm mostly just experimenting with them to
see what use a large diaphragm might be, so don't think I'll take on the
extra load to cart around.

Driven by a large parabola I expect you won't be near the noise floor
much. The problem might be their top end.

Walt




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