At 4:25 PM -0700 4/22/07, Kim Cascone wrote:
>Last year I did some location recording using my stereo lavs taped to=A0
>walls and discovered the wonders of boundary miking
>so I purchased two Realistic PZM microphones
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>I'm mulling over all the online documentation on mod'ing these mics
>http://www.uneeda-audio.com/pzm/index.htm
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>but they all seem to boil down to
>- converting the mic from unbalanced to balanced
>- allowing P48 to power them
>which is fine for studio applications but not idea for field recording
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>none of the mod's seem to optimize the quality for PIP based location=A0
>recording
>i.e., utilizing the PIP to power the electret mics instead of having=A0
>an inline battery and Z matching xformer
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>so my question is:
>- does anyone have information on how to mod these PZM's to use with
>a PIP type recording rig?
Used stock, the built-in battery will
over-ride/negate PIP with no ill effects. As
those caps work better on higher voltage, PIP
might provide lower performance. I always wanted
to replace the caps Radio Shack uses. The
EM-158's might be a good choice. Rob D.
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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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Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/
six media arts faculty positions in search:
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/FilmDept/Hirings/base.htm
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