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Re: Electronics, pricing and moral??

Subject: Re: Electronics, pricing and moral??
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Sun Sep 3, 2006 6:20 am (PDT)
Using a EM23, talking into it with a very low voice, half a meter away -
the Edirol R09 recording level is 10, when the amp runs 40 db gain.
60 db gain is no problem, though, if needed.

I want it very straightforward, not even a battery indicator.

Klas.

At 06:46 2006-09-03, you wrote:

> >I have decided what to do - I have already done it and will make a numbe=
r
> >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 mysel=
f
> >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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>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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