Mic repair in London

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Hi,
I recently bought a microphone on eBay, unfortunately Royal Mail did
their usual trick of managing to brake it. In all honesty the repairs
needed are pretty minor, but I would prefer a professional to do the
work.
I am in London, so can anyone recommend someone who can repair old
German tube mics?

Thanks,
Pete.

[Scott Dorsey]

> wrote:
>I recently bought a microphone on eBay, unfortunately Royal Mail did
>their usual trick of managing to brake it. In all honesty the repairs
>needed are pretty minor, but I would prefer a professional to do the
>work.
>I am in London, so can anyone recommend someone who can repair old
>German tube mics?

What kind of old German tube mikes? West or East or prewar?
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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On Dec 16, 5:22 pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> > wrote:
> >I recently bought a microphone on eBay, unfortunately Royal Mail did
> >their usual trick of managing to brake it. In all honesty the repairs
> >needed are pretty minor, but I would prefer a professional to do the
> >work.
> >I am in London, so can anyone recommend someone who can repair old
> >German tube mics?
>
> What kind of old German tube mikes? West or East or prewar?
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."


The name on the box is 'VEB Funkwerk Leipzig', with the model number
CM7156. I'd say it's post-war.

[Peter Larsen[_2_]]

wrote:

> The name on the box is 'VEB Funkwerk Leipzig', with the model number
> CM7156. I'd say it's post-war.

Yerp, there weren't any peoples owned factories prewar and Leipzig used to
be in the DDR. But the DDR was in many ways the simple continuation of the
3' Reich, and not all designs manufactured by their industry were new. From
the one that is still to find on ebay my guess is however post war.

How do you plan to power it, were powersupply specs included?

See also: http://search.ebay.de/_W0QQsassZphono-fan for images and info on
such a mike.

I find the buy it now price an order of magnitude too high for an untested
microphone that needs a custom powersupply but hasn't got it almost no
matter its merits, at least unless you miss only that microphone to have a
complete collection of valve-driven condensers from the DDR.



Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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On Dec 16, 6:04 pm, "Peter Larsen" > wrote:
> wrote:
> > The name on the box is 'VEB Funkwerk Leipzig', with the model number
> > CM7156. I'd say it's post-war.
>
> Yerp, there weren't any peoples owned factories prewar and Leipzig used to
> be in the DDR. But the DDR was in many ways the simple continuation of the
> 3' Reich, and not all designs manufactured by their industry were new. From
> the one that is still to find on ebay my guess is however post war.
>
> How do you plan to power it, were powersupply specs included?
>
> See also:http://search.ebay.de/_W0QQsassZphono-fanfor images and info on
> such a mike.
>
> I find the buy it now price an order of magnitude too high for an untested
> microphone that needs a custom powersupply but hasn't got it almost no
> matter its merits, at least unless you miss only that microphone to have a
> complete collection of valve-driven condensers from the DDR.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Peter Larsen


It came with a power supply, and relevant cables.

[Peter Larsen[_2_]]

wrote:

>> See also:http://search.ebay.de/_W0QQsassZphono-fanfor images and
>> info on such a mike.

>> I find the buy it now price an order of magnitude too high for an
>> untested microphone that needs a custom powersupply but hasn't got
>> it almost no matter its merits, at least unless you miss only that
>> microphone to have a complete collection of valve-driven condensers
>> from the DDR.

> It came with a power supply, and relevant cables.

Thank you for supplementing with this important information.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Scott Dorsey]

> wrote:
>On Dec 16, 5:22 pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>> What kind of old German tube mikes? West or East or prewar?
>
>The name on the box is 'VEB Funkwerk Leipzig', with the model number
>CM7156. I'd say it's post-war.

That looks like a Neumann-style part number, but I thought the Leipzig
folks were East German AKG. Oliver Archut would know for sure. Either
he or Udo at Microtech Gefell would be my first phone calls if I were you.
That definitely didn't come from Gefell but Udo would know if there was
anything left of where it did come from. And if there was any tech local
to you.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Gareth Magennis]

> wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> I recently bought a microphone on eBay, unfortunately Royal Mail did
> their usual trick of managing to brake it. In all honesty the repairs
> needed are pretty minor, but I would prefer a professional to do the
> work.
> I am in London, so can anyone recommend someone who can repair old
> German tube mics?
>
> Thanks,
> Pete.





http://www.proaudioeurope.com/index.php?id=41


Mark is a bit of a vintage mic nut and has very good techs on hand.



Gareth.