Lucy...I'm Home!
I went to Washington D.C. for a few days and just left the mic "on" at home.
Well the bass is back.
Most of it anyway.
I'm done.
The sound is 1000% better than it should be for Hmmmm let's see: $230 for the mic, $15 for the Ansar, $8 for the Black Gate, nothing for the removal of the inner layers of mesh, and $0 for the nice tube I already had.
Total cost of this extravaganza.
A whopping $253!!! (Not including shipping.)
If my
Rode Classic sounded anywhere near as good as this Apex - I never would have sold it. I am ordering another 460 and doing the exact same mod. I already ordered two of every part.
Then I'm ordering my Pearlman TM-1.
Ha! You thought I was going to use the 460 for voice.
I fooled you all HaHaHAhAHAhHAH.
Just kidding.
Although, I really am ordering the Pearlman in a few days - I am happy with the 460, and when I have two I will use them for overheads, guitars, horns, voice, you name it.
I only hope that the capsule is the same as the one I got now. The quality control must be lax in China. There was a group buy I saw that had this mic for $69. Rejects? Who knows what I will get next. I'm hoping $230 buys me a good one.
Funny, but I dug deep in some boxes and found some tubes I forgot about.
I had an RCA 12at7 that sounded really almost exactly like the Tele I have in the mic. I compared 4 other Tele 12ax7s and the RCA matched the best of the Tele's. The other Tele's don't sound as good. So to match my 460s I have to use a 12ax7 and a 12at7.
Funny.
This has been fun and I didn't want to do it if I had to replace the capsual or the trany. I might as well get some other mic.
The opportunity to tune my own mic to my own needs was priceless.
Thanks.
Bobby.
Not so fast.
I'm recording the loud vocalist tomorrow and will see If I still have a overload problem. I tested with my own voice today and everything seemed O.K.- Don't know why.
If it is still overloading the mic I will "not" replace the transformer but rather, change a resistor.
What resistor you ask.
I do not know.
I promise to update you with a sound bite of the moded 460 and the loud one.
Stay tuned.