Pinouts for Russian mics?

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I've got a vintage Russian mic here with a 5 pin DIN plug at one end. Only 3 pins of it are wired up...I want to put an XLR on there. Any suggestions?
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Pin 1 to the shield, pin 2 to the + lead and pin 3 to the -.
 
DIN Plug

How would you identify which wire is +, - and shield? All I need is a diagram of the Russian 5-pin standard. Surely someone is familiar with it...
 
Carbon111 said:
I've got a vintage Russian mic here with a 5 pin DIN plug at one end. Only 3 pins of it are wired up...I want to put an XLR on there. Any suggestions?
Regards, James
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http://www.carbon111.com
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Oktava is an old Russian microphone company going back to the 20's and 30's. They make many different mics for broadcast, studio, dispatch, telephones, and even for hearing aids, with many different pin configurations. You didn't mention which model mic it was, so it's a little difficult to pin down what wires go where. The good news is they're on-line and still active.

Their website is:

http://oktava.tula.net/eng/o1_e.htm

That will take you to a list of all their mics since they started business. Once you find the model you have, you can contact them thru email at:

oktava@tula.net

and get the proper pinout.

If you donb't wanna go thru all that, grab a meter and find which wire goes to the case - that's the ground. Hook that up to pin 1 of the XLR. Hook the other two wires to pins 2 and 3 of the XLR - doesn't matter which goes where.

Plug the mic in and plug in a Shure SM57 (or any other well-known mic) into another channel. Bring up the volume on the Oktava channel till it's at a comfortable level. As you keep talking, now bring up the SM57 channel slowly. If the sound seems to get softer as you bring up the Shure, you have pins 2 and 3 of the Oktava wired in reverse. Swap pins 2 and 3 and you're done.

Sorry about the delay in answering your question.
 
Hit the nail on the head...

Harvey Gerst said:
...If you don't wanna go thru all that, grab a meter and find which wire goes to the case - that's the ground. Hook that up to pin 1 of the XLR. Hook the other two wires to pins 2 and 3 of the XLR - doesn't matter which goes where.

Plug the mic in and plug in a Shure SM57 (or any other well-known mic) into another channel. Bring up the volume on the Oktava channel till it's at a comfortable level. As you keep talking, now bring up the SM57 channel slowly. If the sound seems to get softer as you bring up the Shure, you have pins 2 and 3 of the Oktava wired in reverse. Swap pins 2 and 3 and you're done.
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No problem! Thats *exactly* the kind of answer I was looking for! Thanks again.
 
i think u can also buy a simple TUCHEL connector,

a 5 pin mini xlr connector,
or won't that work on these octava mics?
i got one old mic with tuchel-3-pin
 
earworm said:
i think u can also buy a simple TUCHEL connector,

a 5 pin mini xlr connector,
or won't that work on these octava mics?
i got one old mic with tuchel-3-pin
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Is that a brand?

Or is it

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