Here's something I've been wondering about for a while...I'm not too familiar with mic design so please bear with me ;D
Why not build in a tube preamp into the power-supply box for a tube mic? Has this been done already? That way, the preamp section's input could be optimized to some degree for the microphone circuit's output. I think there would be other advantages to this design as well, but also some disadvantages.
One reason I was wondering about this is because I was reading about the "church mic" and also about the U47's that Rein Narma modified for Rudy Van Gelder's studio. In both of those cases, they made the output of the mic less hot so it would work with existing tube preamps. I was wondering how come they didn't hack a preamp into the power supply box.
Reo
Why not build in a tube preamp into the power-supply box for a tube mic? Has this been done already? That way, the preamp section's input could be optimized to some degree for the microphone circuit's output. I think there would be other advantages to this design as well, but also some disadvantages.
One reason I was wondering about this is because I was reading about the "church mic" and also about the U47's that Rein Narma modified for Rudy Van Gelder's studio. In both of those cases, they made the output of the mic less hot so it would work with existing tube preamps. I was wondering how come they didn't hack a preamp into the power supply box.
Reo