On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 7:12:44 AM UTC-7, slinkp wrote:
I'd like to try the shunt resistor trick, as per eg. that old Paul Stamler article, but i have no idea where my soldering kit has got to, and exercising my soldering skills (terrible) is no longer on my list of "fun things to do with my very limited free time". Plugging in a presumably inexpensive thing that's already wired up and seeing if I like it does sound fun though.
So if there's a place or person that sells eg. an XLR barrel with a suitable resistor already correctly wired into it, I'd happily buy one. Google's not turning up such a thing but it's hard to know exactly what to search for.
And so, after an interesting discussion about loading vs. non-loading of mics, someone told me about the "Lower-Z" - $13.99 from FireHouse Audio.
https://www.fhaudio.net/ . Their low-information description is amusing ... "Less Resistance Means Fuller Tone", and more! [I didn't know the brush company had a sound division.]
Roy W. Rising "If you notice the *sound*, it's wrong."