[sdiy] DIY for Microphones

[Ben Bradley]

For anyone who hasn't seen this, here's the "outlet" you need for
making mics - it's a DIY forum for making studio electronics. A lot of
it has been making copies of classic compressors and such, but it has
a subforum dedicated to making microphones:
https://groupdiy.com/


On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Terry Shultz <thx1138 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Again all for the final thread.
>
> http://recordinghacks.com
>
> I am looking to build a 16 channel Microphone array in a spherical shape for
> a Virtual Reality project.
>
> I just thought some of you would enjoy the diversion a bit.
>
> I promise not to further Hi-jack the site.
>
> best regards,
>
> Terry
>
>
> On Nov 17, 2017, at 12:30 PM, sleepy_dog at gmx.de wrote:
>
>
> not only capsule and amp can make a difference.
> That one guy, Michael Joly, made modding cheap microphones to improve
> performance his job. He started with the "sound coffin" oktava MK219, hence
> the name "oktavamod", although I think the name has changed by now.
> Back then (2003 ?) he had some freely available info on modding some of the
> Oktava mics also in numerous forum posts, I forgot the site where that was
> on.
> I thus modded the MK219 once, mechanically, and it did improve clarity (e.g.
> protective mesh mods, removal of plastic resonator discs for (doing away
> with) high-end hyping etc).
> He had/has some nice comparison recordings on his site, e.g. modded Oktava
> or MXL vs. vintage Neumann, which might surprize some :-)
>
> - Steve
>
>
> Dave Magnuson wrote:
>
> Very nice find.
>
> I was given one of the cheap BM-800 microphones he mentions on his site.
> Might be fun to throw $150 at it and see what kind of difference a capsule
> and new preamp will make.
>
> Dave M
>
> From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On Behalf Of Terry
> Shultz
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2017 11:17 AM
> To: synth-diy mailing list
> Cc: Brad Stewart
> Subject: [sdiy] DIY for Microphones
>
> Hi All, A bit off topic but quite cool.
>
> https://microphone-parts.com
>
> regards,
>
> Terry
>
>
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