Behringer ECM-8000, disasssembly?
Soundhaspriority
FW-1082, and have some parts left over, so I thought I'd open up the
Behringers to see what can be done.
Can these mikes be easily taken apart? There are three screws around the
XLR, but I don't want to pull on that if wires will break.
Bob Morein
Dresher, PA
(215) 646-4894
Les Cargill
> I've just finished modding some MXL-603's, and the mike preamps of a Tascam
> FW-1082, and have some parts left over, so I thought I'd open up the
> Behringers to see what can be done.
>
> Can these mikes be easily taken apart? There are three screws around the
> XLR, but I don't want to pull on that if wires will break.
>
The ones I have will not easily disassemble. You can pull about half a
little circuit card with a transformer on it before the wires fight back.
> Bob Morein
> Dresher, PA
> (215) 646-4894
>
>
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Arny Krueger
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> Soundhaspriority wrote:
>
>> I've just finished modding some MXL-603's, and the mike
>> preamps of a Tascam FW-1082, and have some parts left
>> over, so I thought I'd open up the Behringers to see
>> what can be done. Can these mikes be easily taken apart? There are three
>> screws around the XLR, but I don't want to pull on that
>> if wires will break.
>
> The ones I have will not easily disassemble. You can pull
> about half a little circuit card with a transformer on it
> before the wires fight back.
That's my experience.
There is a brass fitting that holds the capsule, that is press-fitted to the
body of the mic. Slide it off and you can disconnect the wires. Then you can
remove the circuit card. Yup, not pretty.
Soundhaspriority
"Arny Krueger" <ar...@hotpop.com> wrote in message
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Did you work it by twisting or a straight pull?
Arny Krueger
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It's been about 2 years since I did this last, so when I wrote the post I
was a bit fuzzy about the details. However, after some reflection, I believe
that it was the tube that came free. Both the tube and the tip are brass.
I seem to recall that I tried both twisting and pulling, but that pulling
was the effective move. I ended up scuffing the plating on the tube. But, I
also ended up with an operational mic when I put things back together.
Purpose of the exercise was curiosity.
Geoff
Mind you, doing anything to the mic will render any supposed 'calibration'
irrelevent.
geoff
Don Pearce
wrote:
Probably much easier and more productive to buy a few Panasonic
electret capsules instead, and play with those.
d
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Soundhaspriority
"Don Pearce" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Probably much easier and more productive to buy a few Panasonic
> electret capsules instead, and play with those.
>
> d
>
opinion?
Scott Dorsey
>"Don Pearce" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:58:24 +1300, "Geoff" <ge...@nospam-paf.co.nz>
>> wrote:
>[snip]
>>
>> Probably much easier and more productive to buy a few Panasonic
>> electret capsules instead, and play with those.
>>
>opinion?
Audix, Avenson, and Earthworks all make similar microphones based around
the same series of Japanese capsules that the capsule Behringer used was
copied from.
--scott
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Soundhaspriority
"Scott Dorsey" <klu...@panix.com> wrote in message
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I thought that perhaps Earthworks made their own.
With respect to the others, you mean the Panasonic capsules? With prices
that top out around $3 ?
Scott Dorsey
>
>I thought that perhaps Earthworks made their own.
>With respect to the others, you mean the Panasonic capsules? With prices
>that top out around $3 ?
Some of them use the three-terminal Panasonic types, which are closer to
$20. These use a conventional FET with an external bias resistor rather
than the FET-IC used in the $3 ones.
Richard Crowley
> "Don Pearce" wrote...
>> Probably much easier and more productive to buy a few Panasonic
>> electret capsules instead, and play with those.
>>
> opinion?
One would hope that at that price the Audix would have a significantly
lower self-noise than the equivalent Behringer. IIRC, that is the main
shortcoming of the Behr ECM8000.
Audix specs self-noise at 26dB (17dB A-weighted) but, of course,
Behringer does not specify that number at all (assuming it would
be credible if they did.)