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Old 10th April 2007   #14
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Originally Posted by drBill View Post
I had Michael Joly of oktavamod mod my 205. It sound wonderful and has the Lundhal (sp?) transformer in it with the acoustic mods to remove the excess layers and ringing of the mic body as well. I don't have any coles at my studio to compare it to, but Michael does and he personally likes the modded 205's better. He's supposed to have some audio samples of modded 205's vs. 4038's up soon.
NICE! I've heard good things about his mods, whether it's preferrable to a coles is probably source dependent, but just removing the ringing and phase problems from the grille etc and improving the tranny (which I know isn't very good) must go a long way to improving the subtleties of the mic.

Cheers,
Don
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