PhilGood: If you get the High Quality Mic elements then they aren"t Noisy at all and the Good ones Have a Perfectly Flat Frequency Responce with a Very Low Signal to Noise Ratio....
I Compared the Specs of Some of the Good Mic elements to the Specs of some Mid Cost Condencors(in the $100 to $300 Range) and the Specs were Very Simular and even Better in Many Cases as I couldn"t Find many Mics in this Price Range with a allmost perfectly Flat frequency responce...
There are also Elements that are Noise Canceling if You want to filter out some of the High frequency Noise....
There ia also a way to wire these Mics to Run on Phantom Power but you need to wire in a Resistor that converts the +48v to under +10v.....I like the Fact that it uses it"s own Power supply cuz I sometimes have to use the 1/4in TRS Input on my Mixer for Mics which aren"t Phantom Powered
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PS: This Schematic is for Wireing a Ballanced Output (With XLR Input) if you want un-ballanced Output I can Post the Schematic for that also(1/4in TRS Input is not Ballanced).....
And if you spend the extra on the Better quality elements it will make a world of Differance...
Also Do not Plug the Mic into a Input that has Phantom Power enabled as it will Fry the Mic Like "PhilGood" said.....
Also if you use this Schematic it will only Drain Power when the Mic Cable is Connected to the Mic.....
