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Thanks guys .

barefoot, I am going to shield the insides of my Stratocaster and “fix-up” the standard grounding wiring, and move the controls around on the pickguard because the volume knob gets in my way. When I started investigating how to do this I came across a number of mods that also offer potentially...

Cool! I’m just trying to picture how the faceplate and breadboard would be situated together inside the box. I suppose the standard way would be to lay the breadboard down flat and have the controls mounted on the long strip of the box (like what would be in most 1-rack-unit-sized devices). In...

Yes, but my take is that keyboards will be OK to go direct, as they already produce a 'line' level signal that your mixer will accept.

Sounds good. But in that case does that mean I'd have to buy PCB-mountable components (for the female jacks, potentiometers, switches)? I'm not sure that the hole spacing would accomodate all the components(?). Part of the thing will be a mini patch-bay--5 jacks will be plugged in and out...

It's to experiment with how I might mod a guitar ... So many choices with 3 pickup, series/parallel combinations, phasing, capacitance values for tone, volume. Yeah, I was thinking, even if the tin box didn't provide enough shielding I could line it with foil (like I intend to do under the...

I want to build a simple electronics device. It will just contain a bunch of female jacks, potentiometers, switches, some capacitors, but no power. I wouldn't know how to go about creating a PCB (board) but I figure for this prototype thing I could just as easily get away with screwing all the...

I agree with Gidge.

Roel, I was wrong but couldn't see why. I understood how the 2 differential signals are combined and any common-mode interference is eliminated. What I couldn’t wrap my head around was where the return path was for each of the cores. After all, in an unbalanced cable the shield is used as the...

But in a standard mic cable doesn't the shield also act as a common signal return path for each of the core sends? Have I got this wrong or what??? Even with star quad, the shield is used the same way, i.e. as a common return path. The only difference is that the send cores are wired in...

Why don’t standard mic cables use a third core instead of the shield--so that all the signals are protected? (eg. 2 send cores as in a normal balanced line, and 1 core for the common return). What’s the use of the shield if it is carrying a signal that is not itself shielded? On a more...

Is Adam's problem that he is not using a microphone preamp? From my understanding, he needs a pre to bring the signal up to line level before the EQ box, otherwise he'd have to overuse lots of noisy gain. However, if this is the problem then I can't really explain why the noise doesn't...

Y’know, regarding longevity, I bought an SM-58 and SM-57 about 15 years ago, just because my band used them. It was just blind luck that I bought these particular items, but it is my good fortune to still have something that I can appreciate the utilty of, “long after I’ve forgotten the price"...

Creepy’s post is a good reality check, but I just want to say... I can’t argue with that. If we used mics for the wrong situation, despite all the help given with choosing the application (eg. Polar Patterns thread), then that would be pretty silly. Are we doing that though? I’m not sure why you...

1000?! cheers.

8th Street sold me the v67G for $100 + $30 for the matching MXL-57 shockmount. I asked them to pricematch the mic to Mars Music, and the shockmount to Zzounds and MusiciansFriend prices. That was 2 weeks ago. I don't think anyone has really reported problems with the black ones yet (the one's...

and, http://www.cannonsound.com.au/ Let us know of any reasonable deals out there: Neutrik NYS-SPP-L patchbay 48-point TRS - 2 weeks ago was $100 at CannonSound http://www.cannonsound.com.au/neutninpatpa.html , (now back to $135, unfortunately). I got mine locally for $95. This is cheaper than...

I’ve stumbled across the following stores. I don’t know much about them yet. Some of the web site design is shocking. http://musicsolutions.com.au/ http://www.sounddevices.com.au/ http://www.kosmic.com.au/ http://www.derringers.com.au/ http://www.sound-music.com/ - ST-Audio/Hoontech cards and...

wes480, I hope you got enough out of this thread before we hijacked it. :D Dr_Sbaitso, thanks for the link. Some good prices in there. I'm getting the feeling that although Australia doesn't have mega mart music stores over the country, there are a number of single stores that advertise on...

Thanks for the letter reprint. It's always a one-way street! (or shipping lane?). When we ship overseas it's "a few cents", but when we import the story changes to something like "freight costs are huge". The info about import duty was interesting, although I wonder what percentage import duty...