hi y’all – the Bridgeport CT annual artists-open-studio event will take place in three weeks. Preservation Sound will take part in the festivities once again. If you are in the NY metro area, it’s a free event + worth coming by; we have many fine practitioners of varied stripe in the former American Fabrics factory: fine art photographers, textile artists, painters, sculptors, and some indefinable.
For my part, I will have several fresh equipment builds on display + for purchase, including guitar, home hi-fi, and recording studio equipment, plus, for the first time, tons of LP records, vintage audio equipment, and general antique audio flotsam+jetsam. I’ll be passing the time hand-building… something, I’m not sure yet, but probably some sort of esoteric vacuum-tube mic preamp.
Full details are available here.
I’ll be posting another reminder the week of the event.
3 replies on “Save the date! November 9&10 – PreservationSound open studio event”
Here’s a pretty good project that might be something you can morph to what you want:
http://www.radioworld.com/article/curt%E2%80%99s-gyraf-audio-g-tube-mic-project/221879
Audio engineers the world over appreciate the sound of vintage tube microphones like the Neumann U 47 or the AKG C12, but the cost can easily run to several thousand dollars, leaving them beyond the reach of all but the biggest studios (or well-heeled dilettantes). What if I were to tell you that, for under $600 — and with a bit of labor — you could enjoy a taste of that vintage sound?
Looks like up your alley….
haha if u think i am about to build that thing, you overestimate me… but thanks! I would be up for DIYing a tube mic, if there was a reliable recipe for doing so by re-building an existing FET condensor, EG., an oktava 319…
Just buy a capsule from one of several suppliers and build the boards.
The case can be made from any of several metals. Surely in Bridgeport, Ct. there is someone who will do the metalwork!
A ribbon mic is an easier project in some ways. It’s inherently low impedance so the amp does not have o be in the mic body.
I personally think a GOOD FET mic would be as good as a tube one if you didn’t have phantom power to dick with. David Manley had a discussion with me on this.