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Originally Posted by MarkS
max,
please tell me more about the resistor in the wire thing. i feel like watching a series and right on the most intense spot, there is that advertisement break...
you mentioned the output - i guess, you mean soldering a 600 across the xlr pins ?
please correct, or shed some light on it.
thank you very much !!!
Hey, I know what you mean. I'm ok with some of this stuff, but only in the 'cookbook' sense. If I have to use my imagination, I'm lost.
Anhow, all you guys who are thinking of doing this, I'm going to the electronics supply guy later today, and I figure I'm gonna try some different values. Some of the mics I have are sounding pretty saturated at 1000 ohms when the track is solo'd, but when I drop it into a mix, it's perfect.
One problem is that 512c's are all I really ever used with a couple of exceptions. So I don't have any relativity as far as how saturated and 'round' a mic preamp can/should be. I trust my ears, but it's nice to have some kind of benchmark. I feel like the real deal is gonna be to make some little pigtails with different values, then I could change them in a couple of seconds.
zmix: as to your question, I have no idea what the word from 'above' is on the external termination. Like I said, I'm practicing medicine without a license.
The impetus for doing this came from this thread:
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthrea...ight=api+klett
where the idea for a 600 ohm resistor is attributed to API and the idea for a 1200 ohm resistor is attributed to John Klett. While the character of the preamp is (to me) definitely API with and without the 'modification' the sound makes more sense to me when I hear the preamp with the resistor in place.