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Dachman Audio U87 Clone Kit
Paul Dorman wrote:
It's not hard to make a surface very flat. You'll have to Bull-S*** better than that! Again, I suggest you try it. It's easy to make an omni capsule that does pretty well. It's hard to make a cardioid capsule that does pretty well. It is damn hard to make a figure-8 capsule that does pretty well. I have been trying it. I can only tell you what I have experienced. Comments from Richard Wielgosz: "If you're buying good parts like a Peluso capsule and transformer, the parts come out to about $575. It's not magic, the rest of the components are just common electronics parts. Caps, resistors, etc.... Neumann builds lovely mic bodies machined to serious standards, so using a less expensive body saves money here. The commonly used body is about $150 of the aforementioned price. Is it as nice as the Neumann? No. Does it need to be? No. The 150 one I've seen is plenty substantial. The rest is just how good the clone of the actual circuit is. And the circuit boards being used here are EXACT clones of a particular vintage U87 circuit. I think he cloned a circuit from a 1970s U87. Again, I suggest you try one of these microphones. Put it in figure-8 and put it in front of a singer with a guitar and see if you can null the guitar out completely. Put it in a room, set it to omni, then see how far from the source you can pull it before things fall apart. The differences between microphones very quickly become evident. Mr. Weilgosz is pretty much correct that the capsule is the hard part, but I suggest that most of the companies selling Feilo-style capsules are not saying anything comparable to a K87. But try it yourself in your room and see for yourself. Some of the companies making Feilo-style capsules have managed decent nulls, but they are not any of the companies you have mentioned so far, and they manage it mostly through extreme manual skill and high fall-outs. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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