They sound great, thanks Timjag!
Well, they both sound great, but I've an intermittent issue with No. 2 where it will more often than not be incredibly quiet, like 20-25dB down, but at other times be perfect. Nothing changes in the tonality, just the gain. I'm not, by ANY stretch of the imagination, an electronics wiz... Which probably makes this seem like a bizarre project to most people... But, on the odd opportunities I've had to work on the poor old girl I still haven't sound the solution.
I've been wondering if populating a whole new board and swapping it out might be the best solution rather than trying to track down the problem.
That's probably one of the slightly harder things about using SMDs instead of thru-hole. :/
So, as far as sound goes: To my ear, for whatever that's worth, they sound really similar to the original circuit just a little quieter (and flat/linear) noise floor. Which is exactly what I was aiming for, so YAY! The capsules in these mics are brilliant, they're made by Ben Sneesby so that's a given, but to negligibly change the character while lowering the noise floor even more is a great result from my point of view.
Certainly a good result given that I'm not an electronics engineer and had to learn almost everything from scratch to give this mod a go!
Ha, noobs FTW.
ps. thanks for the link, good price on those mics alright. Might be worth a check out!
