On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:21:54PM -0500, graywolf wrote: > Ah ha! You will find you need a preamp for that mike. I tried with my > Thinkpad and you only get good volume with the mic right up against your > face. Preamps seem to run about $50, while you can get a "Behringer > Xenyx 802" mixer board for $60 on the web. It has the preamps plus a > bunch of other features built in. I am using a couple of Nady SP-4c > mikes that were dirt cheap ($25 for the pair with shipping) from > Amazon.com with cables. They are suprisingly robust, similar to the > Shure SM58 for 1/10th the price. (However, I would rather have omni's > for field use so if anyone has a couple of EV635A's or AT802's laying > about they would like to sell cheap, please let me know) I will probably > get the 1202 mixer for use with the laptop, and with my new old recorder. > > Which gives me the chance to mention (brag about) the latest addition to > my retro-audio system. Yesterday the "Superscope by Marantz CD-330 > Professional Portable Cassette Recorder" (I run out of breath just > typing all that) I bought off eBay (item 110084712208) a couple of weeks > ago finally arrived. Had a lot more issues than the seller mentioned, > but I have it working about 80-90% now. A couple of more days and I hope > I will have it working just about like new (or will have decided it is > junk).
You'd be amused by the unit I saw being used as a prop at a local furniture store; it's a GE? turntable with integrated 8-track tape player. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
