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    A new fake mic from China - this time, the Beta 58

    I'm more to incline to think its a b stock manufacturing that didn't pass. Which when Shure was in the US, they relabeled their B-stock and sold it to Realistic/Radio Shack. Because that style of manufacturing of finish on the threads, it would be coated and the threads cut, then later...
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    Phantom Power from 18-0-18 ac Transformer

    You do have a point with this as most are 5-12V internally set by a zener inside. But as far as building mic preamps, I think people should ditch the phantom circuit all together as its a point of loss. But this user I guess is trying to power a mixing board channel strip. Which could be easily...
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    Phantom Power from 18-0-18 ac Transformer

    maybe a different approach with a zener diode like what the old TAB modules had. Considering voltage regulators will not have headroom. The other logical approach would be a boost converter on the +15 V.
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    A new fake mic from China - this time, the Beta 58

    It really makes me wonder if someone is counterfeiting or if the CCP confiscates a manufacturing lot from a factory or distributor in China and the CCP is dumping it to upset the market. I know they do this to some who don't put 'made in China' on their products they manufacture there but...
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    Condensers or Capacitors

    To give you a serious answer, its the arc formed when mechanically switching. A suppression condenser, which that is the long name for it, is a constantly charged capacitor that lowers the potential voltage where the two points break contact.
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    Phantom Power from 18-0-18 ac Transformer

    Problem that I can see the OP needs to use a bigger transformer because 36V rectified to 50VDC is only going to leave 2V of headroom on the regulator so the only regulators that would work would be LDO types but I think all of them in the input voltage range are surface mount now these days. I'm...
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    confusion about a Behringer headphone amp

    Never had any issue with using 32 ohm AKG and 60 ohm Sony headphones, but I noticed my 250 ohm do have more bass to them, but the DT880 are semi-open back so they are going to have more bass naturally. 100 ohms might come from the output op amp's specification. So it might be able to drive a...
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    confusion about a Behringer headphone amp

    They were designed to be used as a headphone amp. I use them patched as mono and use a single aux send. But what you wanted to do has to be done with either a mixer or an interface that has a mixer before conversion and so far that info is not provided what interface is used.
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    I have a crazy drum idea, but I need advice

    I heard of people trying that out. But what I have seen them settle on is resonate head live and without when recording. Another interesting one is a resonate head tom with a a half dozen or so cotton balls in them.
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    I have a crazy drum idea, but I need advice

    What I find interesting is the layered effect of kick track without the resonate head and a track with a resonate head. Not many times I heard it but i do like it. The difference between the two, the one without the resonate head actually sounds better when recording, However, live, the mic...
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    Question: Is a 30-watt amp head going into a 2x12 cab good enough for medium-sized gigs?

    Thank you. I didn't want to tell anyone about that. Hopefully soon I get some of my eyesight back through surgery. Because I had to find a new doctor and had to go back to the VA and after two years, I finally am in line to have something done. I'm pissed off at a lot of things in the world, but...
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    Question: Is a 30-watt amp head going into a 2x12 cab good enough for medium-sized gigs?

    Well, if I wasn't almost blind I would be and IF there was a job available. Btw, I misread the schematic earlier, but I corrected my statement. This happens when I have get help and have to draw it in my head after someone describes it to me what is on the screen. I apologize that I don't have...
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    Question: Is a 30-watt amp head going into a 2x12 cab good enough for medium-sized gigs?

    Honestly, you need to take some classes, and read more books, because the schematics you provided uses a resistor/cap for negative feedback in the cathode circuit. The output stage of the walkins dominator is a hifi output stage. Usually tertiary winding outputs are usually in rack equipment and...
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    Guitar pot question

    btw, I book marked that link. I'll go over them thoughtfully eventually. Tube amps are an old thing to me. I went to a specialized college a few decades ago to learn consumer electronics. I just wished I had copied the in classroom textbook they payed Neve to make that went over parts...
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    Question: Is a 30-watt amp head going into a 2x12 cab good enough for medium-sized gigs?

    you still on ignore. I was replying more to post 124 than your nonsense, that I put you on ignore in the first place over. Most .tube amps will have it. Because its the only thing that is keeping them from self-destructing operating tubes way out of their range. Others like the VOX are hifi...
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    Compensating for one's normal age-related high-frequency hearing loss...

    analog recording did that until you got up into neve, amek, and ssl equipment. Because the lower end normally have a slope somewhere between 12-15K and the high end equipment rolled off at 100-200Khz electronically. The API desk was some where in between at around 50Khz, 500 series modules...
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    Compensating for one's normal age-related high-frequency hearing loss...

    I think the hearing loss thing is skewed garbage science. Because everyone's hearing response changes differently for several reasons. Most of the mastering engineers retire around 80 and if age was a factor, then all those engineers wouldn't be 60+ like 3/4 were this past few decades.
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    Focusrite 18i20 3rd Gen Issue

    Only times I was requested that an xlr should not have phantom power running was one time I had to di a pedal steel that the musician made a non-isolated DI. Other than that, I never had a mic that self destructed by phantom. However, I always find it curious why there is no DC coupled mic...
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    Question: Is a 30-watt amp head going into a 2x12 cab good enough for medium-sized gigs?

    Technically, the VOX AC30 is one of the few that don't have a global negative feedback that other guitar amps misaligned to make it have poor speaker dampening.
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    Condensers or Capacitors

    The word condenser usually referred to a power capacitor or a capacitor that is primarily charged. But in the instance of the microphone, it has to do with charging the diaphragm.
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