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Re: Re: mic check

Subject: Re: Re: mic check
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:05 -0700
KLAS:
>  > >The Shure mic can be good, (same category as EM23)
>  > >or a disaster. It's impossible to tell before you have tried it.

DAN:
>  >What situations have been disasters? I've certainly run into its
>>limitations, places so quiet that the mic's self-noise is too
>>prominent, but all products have limitations. I intend to buy the
>>quietest mics I can find, eventually, since I like to record quiet
>>places.
>
>Well, then you have tried it and know. That's what I mean. I never excluded
>what you say.
>
>Disaster?? A lot self noise and sensitive to humidity. Even if electrets
>are reliable, I have met such "disasters".

In the noise department, the 183 at 22 or 23dBA is "very good for the 
price" but certainly not as good as much more expensive mics. The 
self-noise is fine for any relatively "busy" environment, and only 
intrudes in really quiet places.

So far as humidity goes, all I can say is no failures yet; I've 
recorded in the rain, and left them out all night, too.

>The Primo EM23 capsule is still the by far best, compared with more than 50
>other similar capsules. It is also the most expensive. I run it with other
>electronics than Primo, though.

I see, Primo makes the capsule, I wondered what you meant by that.

>  > >How is the Shure mic powered?? It only says that it is going to be
>>  >connected to a "wireless". Does that mean any "wireless" or does it mean a
>>  >"wireless" which provides some voltage, to drive a Shure mic. I am not
>>  >familiar with such matters.
>>
>>It's PIP like any other electret.
>
>Do you know if Shure manufactures the capsules themselves, or buy them from
>China?

I think Shure is made in U.S.A., though nowadays that's always a 
question: it may only mean final assembly.

-Dan Dugan


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