Stonehenge

I thought I had found a nice, low-cost M49 style body, but apparently, we have a scale problem here  ;D





I don't think the Alctron BC1000 is going to be much use in DIY land.

http://vimeo.com/94459739

I thought I had found a nice, low-cost M49 style body, but apparently, we have a scale problem here  ;D

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Um... yes, not just the tube would have to be a subminiature.

Interesting thingy, though. The basket does seem a pretty close copy of the modern, smaller Neumanns (or Gefells, for that matter). By that logic they could do a U67/87 basket, too. Something that is often said to be "impossible" for legal reasons. Not saying it would be legal or ethical or not. Just saying it would seem to be the same principle.
And, come to think of it, it would hold for the actual M49 basket, too...

Or is it the exact size that's the problem, rather than the shape? That would be odd.

How big is the Alctron, anyway?

Kind of looks like a TLM102 sized body.

I'm hoping you can bring in some Alctron Mk47 donor bodies.

Maybe you could get some leprechauns to sing into it & make it look bigger?

trans4funks1 said:

I'm hoping you can bring in some Alctron Mk47 donor bodies.

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ETA 3-5 weeks I think. . . don't quote me on that.  "Stuff" happens with China shipments.

micaddict said:

How big is the Alctron, anyway?

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It is comically small. . . the tube diameter is 2.094" according to my calipers. . . the interior has no provisions for mounting a PCB of any kind.  The OEM board is SMD directly soldered to the XLR pins and the whole thing pulls out in one unit.  The only thing that will fit it is a transformerless SMD circuit I suspect.

You put it up in studio and people WILL laugh at you.

It is comically small. . . the tube diameter is 2.094" according to my calipers. . .

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Thanks.
So that's  a good 53 millimeters. That's not so very small, is it?
Too small for an M49, obviously.

Neumann TLM 102 is 52 mm.

https://www.neumann.com/?lang=en&id=current_microphones&cid=tlm102_data

Don't know if that's the ring or the sleeve.

Gefell M930 is 45 mm.

http://www.microtechgefell.de/index.php/en/microphones/211-m930

And that most certainly is at its widest. I own its longer, tube sister (M990) and the ring on that one is 42.95 mm. The sleeve is 39.7 mm (1.563").
I haven't tried th M930 myself (I hear many good things about it, though), but the M990 eats modern Neumanns for breakfast, BTW and FWIW.

Huh. . . I don't think I've ever even looked at TLM 102.  It looks roughly the same size.  Apparently, TLM 102 is a transformerless SMD design which would make sense.  They don't need all the space.

Looking at it from a M49 perspective, it is an obvious impossibility to get the tube and the transformer into the body