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Re: The Rode NT1A

Subject: Re: The Rode NT1A
From: Klas Strandberg <>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:38:31 +0200
I'll stay in touch with you!

Klas.

At 18:55 2005-07-20, you wrote:
>At 4:56 PM +0200 7/20/05, Klas Strandberg wrote:
> >Hello all.
> >
> >I have now bought two NT1A and will sacrifice one of them. Let it be
> >outside for a week or so, only protected from direct rain.
> >I am also going to take it apart and see if it is possible to redesign i=
t
> >into something smaller and light-weight and possibly put in a parabol, t=
oo.
> >
> >You will get a report in two, three weeks.
> >
> >Klas.
> >
>If anyone can do it you can. I tried slimming it down and I found,
>curiously, that when I removed the heavy base (which some on the mic
>list could  be just was to make the mic feel solid) I got RF I
>couldn't shield with lighter metal subsitutes.Hopefully you can.  The
>NT2_A  also has ta even heavier metal shroud around its xlr
>connector. I was able to cut the capsule right at the point where it
>joins the posts and rotate in 90 dgrees to make it front firing. It
>fits back into the same grille. I like cuz it makes mounting easier.
>You might want to run a test with them both at max gain and listen to
>make sure their self noise is fairly consistent on both mics before
>the swedish humidty test? Have fun! Rob D.
>
>--
>Rob Danielson
>Film Department
>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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>
>
>

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