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Subject: 2. Re: Experiments with Primo EM172 capsules
From: "Mike Rooke" picnet2
Date: Sun Aug 1, 2010 4:30 pm ((PDT))
While were talking about idiots I accidentally made a figure 8 mic out of p=
lastic with more sensitivity than the EM172 - obviously this kind of work m=
ay never happen if I hold the soldering iron for too long since its still t=
o be delicately refined and is a polymer state of the art thats not for sal=
e. -Should also work as a hydrophone which is another delicacy I'm known to=
 solder up blindly.

http://www.urlme.net/blog/?p=3D1516

Nice recordings Chris :)

-M
--- In  Klas Strandberg <> wrot=
e:
>
> Thank you Chris!
> Good recording!
>
> Klas
>
> At 18:50 2010-07-31, you wrote:
> >Dear Klas,
> >
> >Thanks from me for all those years of effort overcoming your
> >stupidity - the result is that you gave me a microphone that has
> >been used from -15 to +35 deg C, it has been up and down mountains,
> >bashed against trees, bounced in the back of my car, soaked in the
> >rain, burned when I accidentally (twice!) pointed the parabola at
> >the sun, and generally badly abused for 4 years, and it sounds as
> >good now as the day I bought it from you. My main need, which you
> >provide so well, is a reliable piece of robust, top quality field
> >equipment which plugs in and is ready to go. No end of capsules and
> >soldering irons would ever have got me there on my own !
> >
> >Please keep learning it is good for the rest of us !
> >
> >C
> >
> >--- In  Klas Strandberg <telinga@> wrot=
e:
> > >
> > > Hi Zach!
> > >
> > >  From your site below:
> > >
> > > "I'm proof that any idiot with a soldering iron can make affordable
> > > low-noise plug-in power mics suitable for recording quiet sources. Ho=
oray!"
> > >
> > > That is correct and I am one of those idiots. But I am so stupid that
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------
> >
> >"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> >sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
> S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
> Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
> email: 
> website: www.telinga.com
>
>
>








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