Total Price for material, power supply, shockmount & Capsule skinning: ca. 1200.- EUR
Nicholas:
The Trafo was made by a friend's fathers company - they normally do high power trafos.
It has been wound sundays as the owed me a favour...
It is not available commercialy.
I'll try the LT1085 - Many Thanks.
Did you check Tube-Town.net for trafos? They are similar to mine, but a little bit bigger.
A lot of people asked how it sounds:
Well, sound talk is difficult. I have compared and used this mic for a while and I can say: This thingy has B A L L S !!! Hard to discribe but there is an authority in the sound this mic produces - even tested blindly against commercially sold Mics of the top class - the only thing I couldn't compare it to was an original U47.
No Sibilance, but more shine, more meat, more detail, more air, the bass simply blows you away - even my own (crappy) voice sounds terrific.
I know this sounds enthusiastic - but please built one for yourself and do a blind test! I promise, this is money well spent.
At first I was a bit uncertain because I did not use a VF14 (Those prices are ridicoulus). Probably it would sound even better.
Other than that the critical components of this built are as close as possible... it wasn't my intention to do an historically correct clone - this one is made for useage!
For now I think the decision was right to go for an EF86 / transformer combination.
Mr. Thiersch did an excellent job on the skinning of the capsule (as always).
Many thanks to Max' for his MK7 circuit - this mic would probably not have been made without its inspiration!
Unfortunately the Flea kit is sold out now - I would love to built a second one...
Regards,
Chris
June 27, 2013, 02:16:51 AM
