Hi!
I hope my son got in touch with you earlier today about the adaptor cable??
Klas.
At 15:44 2014-06-30, you wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Does anybody use the Telinga Universal MK2 together with a cardioid
>mic, specifically the MKH8040?
>
>I ordered the MK2 as the website lists that it's compatible with the
>8040, and received it today. However when I try to mount it I run
>into two problems:
>
>- the cable that connects the mic is too short; as it's a cardioid,
>the microphone needs to point inwards but the cable is so short that
>I can only just about manage to get the mic mounted inside the foam
>windbasket. The cable is then tensed extremely tight and the mic
>capsule is very close to the centre of the dish
>
>- the grey tube that connects the handle to the dish and which leads
>the cable through the dish is open ended. I would have expected this
>to be closed somehow, because the way it is, I am only picking up
>sound from behind the dish! (as the mic is pointed inwards and is so
>close to the centre and thus the open-ended hole of the tube)
>
>
>
>I am assuming that the cable should be longer, leading the mic to be
>further from the centre, leading to the amplification of the dish to
>work and do what it's supposed to do. Regardless, even if I do
>manage to get the mic mounted further from the centre eventually
>(maybe get a cable extension), it seems odd to me that the rear will
>always have this opening - any mic pointing inwards will surely keep
>picking up unwanted sound from the rear?
>
>
>What am I missing here?
>
>
>By the way, I tried calling Telinga in Sweden about this but was
>told by the man I spoke with to wait until Saturday and then try and
>call again because his son was on holiday (??)... I'd like to try to
>get this sorted before then though, hence my question here.
>
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>Daan
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Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
email:
website: www.telinga.com
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