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Re: MKH30 problem : advice needed

Subject: Re: MKH30 problem : advice needed
From: "evs" onomatopoetik
Date: Thu May 17, 2007 11:52 am ((PDT))
hi Yannick,
VERY interesting, because i have a similar problem.
i wanted to start a similar topic the next days.
i have a mkh30 and 40 too, but i also had the problem with a mkh 50
which i tested one day, and i tested several mkh40, and ALL have the
same behavior.

i always have a high frequency sound, no matter if i have the mics
above each other or not.
but i don=B4t think that this is just because of my mics. bevore i
bought those i tested some mkh50 and 40. back then i thought that the
reason is that i used the mbox as a preamp.
then i tested them with my mackie 1202 VLZ pre amps, same thing...
now i have a SD 702, and new mics, same behavior..
i will load a test file the next days, i really wonder if this is
normal..

i mean, i can filter the high frequency away by using a high cut, but
its not really satisfying..
beside that, the mics are sounding great and i=B4m happy i bought
those..:_)

all the best

emil





Am 17.05.2007 um 20:33 schrieb Yannick Dauby:

> Dear Nature Recordists,
>
> I need some advice...
> I have bought last year a second-hand MKH30 which makes me crazy.
>
> Last summer, after using it during a few months without any
> problems, it
> showed some very strange low rolling sounds. I send it to
> Sennheiser in
> Germany where they changed the capsule.
>
> Since I received it, it seems to work except a new strange behaviour :
> the sounds is ok except when the MKH30 is getting close to my
> MKH40, in
> M-S configuration.
> Then, I have in both microphones a very high frequency sound at low
> level (but still disturbing), sometimes stable, sometimes shifting.
>
> I tested with my SD722 and my Digidesign sound card, I changed my
> cables
> but the only thing that stops this annoying whistling is to put a
> piece
> of aluminium foil between the two microphones.
> So I believe that this is an electromagnetic interference between the
> two capsules ? But why my MKH40 get it also ?
>
> What should I do :
> send again the microphone at Sennheiser Germany (because it seems that
> in France, the technicians aren't able to repair it) and waiting 3
> months like the last time (I don't know why do these guys work so
> slowly
> !) ?
> Open the microphone and see if the technician forgot to connect the
> EMI
> protection grid ?
> Keep always aluminium foil between the microphones (mmmmh) ?
>
> Any miracle advice ? ;-(
>
> Friendly,
>
> Yannick
>
> --
>
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> www.yannickdauby.net
>
>
>








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