Need help rewiring a C414 i just bought

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:18 pm

Dude, we're both there. So please accept my apologies for my brash tactless conduct? Glad things worked out. That's always a good thing. And while I might not be 100% accurate with all of my information I am 100% experienced. Verbal visualizations are not always accurate. We've all blown something up at some point in our careers. Particularly funny, especially when people don't get hurt. Just like few people know that George Neumann is more famous for inventing the nickel cadmium battery than he is for his microphones. Now it's nothing more than bad EPA karma. So his most significant contribution to the world will just fade quietly into oblivion, unlike his microphones.

And while our nice Teutonic authority straightened out my inaccuracies regarding the numerous microphones mentioned, plenty of manufactures did produce numerous one-off's, concept pieces, mockups & prototypes. I know because I've been in the manufacturing business in Pro audio. And every manufacturer has always had a small disclaimer indicated somewhere within their literature and/or chassis indicating that "manufacturer reserves the right to make changes without notice". And so, we do, they do we all do do.

Now make some lovely recordings please.

Your friend
Remy Ann David

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:36 pm

Transcending the a-hole? is that physically possible?

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:21 pm

Well, I guess there was no harm done in the end, but there was a better way to handle this. You rushed in to an operation before you got the education. If you had posted your query first, you would have known what connector to look for. You then could have made an adapater cable without ever opening the microphone.
Second, you should practice soldering on something larger than miniature components. This is especially true when most of what you were doing is unsoldering, which is harder to learn. It also takes special tools, such as tinned wicks to absorb solder.
Third, you could have also avoided all the multiple soldering steps by creating an XLR cable that terminated in aligator clips. Then, you could have experminted with alternative hookups without the multiple solering and unsoldering.

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:24 pm

All valid points, but everyone's gotta learn somehow...

I remember mucking about inside my old Atari 2600...

It still works...

(We didn't have none of Teh Internets back then, btw)

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:31 am

There was so an Internet!
There's always been an Internet!
God himself told Noah to build his ark over email, didn't he?

What, what do you mean it's all a lie!?

NOOOO....

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:21 pm

deep in the distant past
I recall
a modem to modem
international phone call
to a JBL Bulletin Board (BB)

to get plans for a PA speaker box
I also got data file of driver spec that went well beyond the simple typical power and resonance stuff

this data was fed into a modelling program called
LEAP

Loudspeaker Enclosure Analysis Program
yes
google it now and you will find it is still alive and well
but you will need to search something like
linearx + leap

I was using a 286
I still use a 386 to run my LMS card
Loudspeaker Measurment System
and to run my old version of
Leap

not quite the internet
and we do like the internet as it does make things much easier
Cool

perhaps Noah recieved that email via Compuserve
or
Viatel

(don't bother with a google of Voatel cos it looks like the name has been re-applied to a very different business)

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