Silvas
Well-known member
A friend of mine found a couple u87 mics, in very bad shape. One was working, one wasn´t. He gave me the nonworking one, and i installed a new fet (need to custom-bias it) , couple new caps and at least the amp is working fine. The metal barrel even has a hole on it !!! The head assembly, the plastic part with the pins was all burned and the pins...there aren´t any. The capsule, it has been brutalized, punctured and miscleaned, so i need a new capsule to make this 87 work again. It costed me almost nothing so i want to invest some money on it and keep it for myself. I also installed new pins on the head assembly.
My options are :
New original capsule - lots of money !
Reskinning the damaged capsule
New replica, Peluso cek67 ?
What do you think? i like the idea of the peluso capsule, specially for cost reasons, but i don´t know how much a reskinning on this capsule will cost. I don´t even know if this damaged capsule is worth something for someone who do reskinning.
The destroyed pins :
The capsule :
After installing the new pins :
Thanks !
My options are :
New original capsule - lots of money !
Reskinning the damaged capsule
New replica, Peluso cek67 ?
What do you think? i like the idea of the peluso capsule, specially for cost reasons, but i don´t know how much a reskinning on this capsule will cost. I don´t even know if this damaged capsule is worth something for someone who do reskinning.
The destroyed pins :
The capsule :
After installing the new pins :
Thanks !