At 12:11 PM -0700 4/25/07, Kim Cascone wrote:
>I snipped the coax at the mic side of the battery box on both mics
>then opened the mic
>took out the little PC board
>reversed the red and black going from the capsule to the PC board=A0
>(i.e., reversing the polarity of the capsule)
>I then stuck a stereo 3.5mm plug on the ends of both mic cables=A0
>(shields going to GND & leads going to the tip and ring of plug)
>shrink tubed the cable pair to the plug
>they tested fine and sounded pretty good
>not to mention to boost from being powered by 9v instead of the 1.5v=A0
>battery box Realistic supplied
>
>I'm also thinking of changing the metal plates to an acrylic/
>Plexiglas ones to lessen the weight for traveling
>nice to finally have portable stereo boundary mics for field recording!
Likely you were successful! Some electret mic
capsules have a fairly high impedance and a
decrease in low Hz response might provide a clue
about that. Rob D.
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