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Re: Electronics, pricing and moral??

Subject: Re: Electronics, pricing and moral??
From: "Po-Jen Chiang"
Date: Sat Sep 2, 2006 9:46 pm (PDT)
>I have decided what to do - I have already done it and will make a number=

>as soon as I have some time to:
>
>It is a
>* Ultra Low Noise (!!!) Stereo mic preamp running on a 9-volt battery,
>* providing plug in power for all kinds of PIP mic's
>* variable gain from 10 - 40 db.
>* low impedance line output.
>* big as a cig pack and about the same weight.
>* current consumption is about 15mA, so it should run at least some 50
>hours on a common alkaline.
>* Price? Don't know yet, but there is nothing like it in the whole wide
>world, so I have no moral hesitations.
>* Price guarantee: The one who can prove that it adds noise to a common
>plug-in-power microphone, will get the money back and I will knock myself=

>in the head with a hammer.
>
>
Sounds a cool thing. Put my name in the list too. So it will be quite
different from the power box (which has no amp) you made before? What
the output connector would be?

Wouldn't max 40db gain a little bit low for nature sound recording? And
R-1, R-09's gain is also low?

Adding digital output is good as long as it does not add much weight,
cost and increase the size. I like small, light, easy connection,
handling and control when connected to the recorder. That's my purpose
of using small mics. My experience with your power box, it is very light
and I could almost ignore it! I just need to figure out how to wrap the
box and recorder together. Maybe you could do something to the box
design so that it is easier to be combined with the recorder?

pj







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