First of all HI! And thanks for the great posts and info on this forum its already helped me so much in giving me inspiration to learn about electronics, been a sound engineer for a while and this side of things needs more attention...
I just build my first mic (yay) its just a small tweeter from a hi fi speaker I cannibalized with the + and - attached to the - and + of an xlr lol.. Pretty easy first project and sounds bad but was good to do. At first I had problem with buzzing but just tied the shield wire surrounding the two in the XLR (Ground or earth right?) to the metal body of the speaker stopping the buzzing...
Next thing I want to do is make my own horrible sounding preamp from the bits and pieces I have lying around.. I say horrid because I only have the low quality components taken out of normal consumer stuff that was getting chucked out, and this is all leading to me hopefully doing the Royer mod on my AKD A51 so want to start really simple before I invest in hi quality caps.
Please could anyone show me a schematic or tell me roughly how to make a very simple pre amp for dynamics (no phantom power this time maybe soon). I have resistors and mainly electrolytic caps but I think there are some different types of caps in the hi fi circuit I ripped out. There are some ceramic ones and some that look like bits of wax. Are these smooth "blob" ones that are mainly dark brown and dark green better than electrolytic ones?
Any help, guidance and support would be much appreciated in my early days of electronics!
Thanks Dom...
I just build my first mic (yay) its just a small tweeter from a hi fi speaker I cannibalized with the + and - attached to the - and + of an xlr lol.. Pretty easy first project and sounds bad but was good to do. At first I had problem with buzzing but just tied the shield wire surrounding the two in the XLR (Ground or earth right?) to the metal body of the speaker stopping the buzzing...
Next thing I want to do is make my own horrible sounding preamp from the bits and pieces I have lying around.. I say horrid because I only have the low quality components taken out of normal consumer stuff that was getting chucked out, and this is all leading to me hopefully doing the Royer mod on my AKD A51 so want to start really simple before I invest in hi quality caps.
Please could anyone show me a schematic or tell me roughly how to make a very simple pre amp for dynamics (no phantom power this time maybe soon). I have resistors and mainly electrolytic caps but I think there are some different types of caps in the hi fi circuit I ripped out. There are some ceramic ones and some that look like bits of wax. Are these smooth "blob" ones that are mainly dark brown and dark green better than electrolytic ones?
Any help, guidance and support would be much appreciated in my early days of electronics!
Thanks Dom...