Re: [LAU] Terrible mic ground noise

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 10:44 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:44:37AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't connect a microphone, that is better than a supermarket
> > microphone to a headphone output!
>
> Most dynamics will take it, as long as you don't go to far in
> power. Some are very good at it, Sennheiser MD21 is one example
> that's well above supermarket quality.
>
> When on holiday in Senegal some years ago I was at a reggea
> party where the DJ was replugging his MD21 all the time, using
> it both as a mic and as a headphone to cue the next track...

Perhaps I'm overcareful, when an audio signal accidentally was that loud
that the sound was played distorted by my headphones, I always feared
that the relatively expensive headphones get damaged, but now they are
30 years old and still ok. Perhaps a microphone and maybe especially a
more expensive one, could take it, but I wouldn't risk it. The MD 21
quasi is professional Telefunken quality of the 60s, capacity to
withstand stresses and operational life span might be different to
nowadays mics.

I'm less overcareful with short circuits, but I anyway don't like the
idea a kill-switch does work,
http://www.google.de/imgres?q=killswitch+buckethead&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1152&bih=726&tbm=isch&tbnid=sIuEla6fLEy3zM:&imgrefurl=http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/2011/03/buckethead-signature-les-paul-wiring.html&docid=OyT5Y8ybt0m4lM&imgurl=https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-lsUkFBbwaZ8/TXYpazAAiuI/AAAAAAAAAU4/E1w0XEiX_3c/s1600/bucketheadwiring.png&w=1052&h=744&ei=K71aUbLiD8qAtAbl9IGwAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=666&vpy=265&dur=1629&hovh=189&hovw=267&tx=166&ty=112&page=1&tbnh=146&tbnw=206&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0,i:112

So as long as I'm not very rich, I try to avoid to do things that the
gear is unprovided for, even if there is (nearly) no risk.

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Received on Tue Apr 2 16:15:02 2013