Moby (or any),
Please post if you do anything else with this. I bought that and a couple C2s for cheap here recently and would be interested to see what you do to it. From the brief listening I did with mine, I didn't mind the brightness so much as the self noise it seemed to have (I believe it was with a Symetrix 528 pre at the time). Some pretty loud low frequency junk was going on between words, but I'd have to check it in a more "sterile" environment. It could have just been picking up more machine/ambient noise.
I'd also be interested to know if any of the people here have suspects in some of the common B-1 failure reports you can find online. It's usually stuff like "mic started making loud rustling noises & pops after a while, got worse, and is now unusable". If it's possibly something other than the capsule, it would be cool to swap in some better replacement parts just for the peace of mind.
BTW- Any ideas on what would be expected from the aforementioned Peluso capsule,etc.? I don't have a large selection here (4050,RE20, various other dynamics), and was sort of looking to get something with that "Chinese bite", but lower noise or higher reliability might be worth adding a few dollars to it.
Thanks!
George
Please post if you do anything else with this. I bought that and a couple C2s for cheap here recently and would be interested to see what you do to it. From the brief listening I did with mine, I didn't mind the brightness so much as the self noise it seemed to have (I believe it was with a Symetrix 528 pre at the time). Some pretty loud low frequency junk was going on between words, but I'd have to check it in a more "sterile" environment. It could have just been picking up more machine/ambient noise.
I'd also be interested to know if any of the people here have suspects in some of the common B-1 failure reports you can find online. It's usually stuff like "mic started making loud rustling noises & pops after a while, got worse, and is now unusable". If it's possibly something other than the capsule, it would be cool to swap in some better replacement parts just for the peace of mind.
BTW- Any ideas on what would be expected from the aforementioned Peluso capsule,etc.? I don't have a large selection here (4050,RE20, various other dynamics), and was sort of looking to get something with that "Chinese bite", but lower noise or higher reliability might be worth adding a few dollars to it.
Thanks!
George
