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Re: Connector, cables, attenuation

Subject: Re: Connector, cables, attenuation
From: "Steve Pelikan" pelikan45224
Date: Wed Mar 7, 2007 12:26 pm ((PST))
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Thanks! and profuse apologies --- when it comes to wires and electrons
I'm MUCH less sophisticated than people give me credit for.

Here's a picture of what I hope I've understood:

http://ucfilespace.uc.edu/~pelikas/mics.pdf

I'm confident I can do this (or the same with a different geometry if
I've got this wrong). I'll try this and see how it goes.

I don't need PIP as my microphone has its own power supply.
But I also haven't a clue how the capacitors should fit into this
picture. (I didn't even know they had + and - ends!).
Do they go in all 3 wires just before they reach the recorder? Or
connect  pairs of wires?

I'm looking forward to this --- can't tell you how often just a little
padding would have made for much more useful recordings.

Steve P

stoatwizard wrote:
> I used to do this, it worked well. Do you need to pass the plug-in-
> power? if not simply stand off the recorder PIP with a couple of 10uF
> caps positive to the  recorder, and use something like a 4.7k resistor
> from the Lto the R with a 470R to ground.
>
> The lowered channel can get noisy if you use much higher resistors.
>
> If you do need to pass the PiP you have to mess with capacitors in one
> leg, and you low-frequency response is usually worse on the attenuated
> side. Not always a bad thing as wind buffeting was one of the things
> that sent my recording over the top, but can be difficult to patch in
> seamlessly
>
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