Track Rat
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Field
Effect
Transistor
It's the type of preamp inside the mic as opposed to say, a tube.
Effect
Transistor
It's the type of preamp inside the mic as opposed to say, a tube.
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DarthFaders
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From what I know, FET amps (mics) are supposed to sound more like tube, but that's just what I've been told.
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wes480
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mmmm hmmm....as opposed to tube...or, what, solid state, i guess? Come to think of it...I never really thought about what a C1 or V67 is...
not FET...or they would say it....not tube, obviously...
not FET...or they would say it....not tube, obviously...
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h kuhn
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every condenser mic has a little preamplifier in it. A preamplifier (or any amplifier) needs at least one ore more active elements, that can be a vacuum tube or a transistor. If you decide on transistors you can use either bipolar or field effect transistors (fet) for this purpose, some microphones, like the mc012, use a combination of both.
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DarthFaders
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I use the Groove Tube AM52, which is FET. FET is supposed to be better than bipolar, so if Studio Projects or Marshal doesn't say that their mics are FET, then they probably aren't.
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crazydoc
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Both the v67 and C1 use FET's according to their specs.
If I can remember back to a time when my brain was functioning, I believe you can think of a FET as a voltage controlled variable resistor. It has an exremely high input impedance, and I assume is used to couple (impedance match) the voltage changes of the condenser (capacitor) to the next stage of the internal mic preamp for subsequent amplification.
The same function can also be performed by a vacuum tube, and probably by suitable discrete bipolar, op amp or other integrated circuits.
Let me add I've enjoyed lurking in this forum for the last several months, and have learned a considerable amount of fact and opinion, though sometimes it's a little difficult for me to separate the two.
If I can remember back to a time when my brain was functioning, I believe you can think of a FET as a voltage controlled variable resistor. It has an exremely high input impedance, and I assume is used to couple (impedance match) the voltage changes of the condenser (capacitor) to the next stage of the internal mic preamp for subsequent amplification.
The same function can also be performed by a vacuum tube, and probably by suitable discrete bipolar, op amp or other integrated circuits.
Let me add I've enjoyed lurking in this forum for the last several months, and have learned a considerable amount of fact and opinion, though sometimes it's a little difficult for me to separate the two.
heylow
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Let me add I've enjoyed lurking in this forum for the last several months, and have learned a considerable amount of fact and opinion, though sometimes it's a little difficult for me to separate the two.
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