A very beautiful little directional moving coil microphone.
Was it made by Eugen Beyerdynamic for Lorenz? The SM100 was the same as the beyerdynamic M55.
It comes with a nice white table tripod.
The sound is amazingly good. Natural, no need to reduce treble or bass unless one gets extremely close. No need for Pleiades filter unless one wants to get really close.
When signal is taken from at the low impedance pin and connected to a 300mH primary inductance 500Ω:50KΩ input transformer bass is less so one can get even closer, 1-2in perhaps.
So it should be about 500-600Ω?
Some sibilant problem.
Very smooth sound.
Setup:
Speech or singing - Schaub Lorenz SM200 hi Z pin - Pleiades V4 (EF183 with 3.6V battery) - Realistic disco mixer mic input - Sennheiser HD580
Thank you for your post! I've just bought this mic from ebay. I've got rid of the transformer and attached an xlr connector. There is no bass AT ALL. Do I need to use the transformer even if it goes to a low impedance input? Thanks in advance
ReplyDeleteJust in case someone reads this. The transformer makes mostly a difference in terms of output. The signal is hotter and there is a bump around 3-5k that makes it sound even more present. Still, it sounds extremely thin and bright. You need to wire it this way: red+green (not connected to any pin) blue+mini red (this is cold) and gold goes to hot pin. Suerte!
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