Soliloqueen's k87(k67) and k47 capsules

[FetMe?FetU!]

Soliloqueen, congratulations on Arienne Audio! I am new to the forum and have to say I am just so caught up reading the thread about your journey. I have not made my way from 1 to 101, but I am more than two-thirds of the way through the forum's 101 pages (and counting) thread. I genuinely find it an interesting and exciting journey you have embarked on. It's a good read and inspiring.

I have searched the forum to see if anyone has placed a 3-pattern Flat47 in a Kingkorg-modded Perception or P 400 series microphone. Perhaps even Kingkorg has some thoughts on this? I have a KK modded P420 and an original configuration Perception 400, and I must confess I am curious what they would sound like with this new capsule swapped in.

 

[bremusound]

The P420 is designed to have a K87 type capsule it it (U87 clone circuit), a K47 would sound rather dull.

 

[Khron]

if anyone has placed a 3-pattern Flat47 in a Kingkorg-modded Perception or P 400 series microphone. Perhaps even Kingkorg has some thoughts on this?

... But why?

 

[Paul W]

The P420 is designed to have a K87 type capsule it it (U87 clone circuit), a K47 would sound rather dull.

The Perception/P 2xx/4xx are designed for capsules that have a bump in the sensitivity around 10KHz, which the K47 does not. You'd probably want to mod it the other way, to roll the highs off less rather than more, or more likely, just use a mic with a circuit that has flat frequency response.

(I think I asked about whether it would work to just remove the relevant capacitor, or replace it with a lower valued one, but I now I forget what the answer was. And as for why, it's because I have several of them lying around and they have proper pad and high pass switches, which the flat-circuit mics I have lying around don't.)

 

[FetMe?FetU!]

So, do you think the Arienne Audio K87 is the better choice since it designed the circuit in my microphone? It would be more expensive, and it looks like I would only have one polar pattern, which AA lists as "normal," which I guess is cardioid.

I like the Kingkorg mod results with the stock capsule, so the question is, will the AA capsule be a dramatic improvement over the stock one?

 

[soliloqueen]

So, do you think the Arienne Audio K87 is the better choice since it designed the circuit in my microphone? It would be more expensive, and it looks like I would only have one polar pattern, which AA lists as "normal," which I guess is cardioid.

no, they just have better side to side matching, so there's no need to sort them. They are all multipattern

 

[FetMe?FetU!]

no, they just have better side to side matching, so there's no need to sort them. They are all multipattern

Oh, thank you for clarifying. That makes much more sense. I'm from the video side of the business and have only recently been expanding my much-neglected audio knowledge. I'm finding microphones remarkably and disturbingly addictive. They're easily as costly as video gear—microphones, that is. Not your capsules, which appear to be quite the value for the performance they provide.