Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Polarity can make a change on balanced microphones too


Before dismissing a microphone as bad sounding it may beneficial...


To use a simple XLR female to male adapter that changes polarity or phase. This means 2 is connected to 3 and 3 to 2.


The effect seems to take place when feeding an external bs,an editor to unbalanced transformer.


In some cases the change is sound is so dramatic one is in for surprise. The difference can be described as from having a bad cold to super clean voice.


The effect is not very well understood.


Some new ideas may be here needed.


Setup, signal path:


200 or 500Ω balanced Mic - Canford, Sowter or other external input transformer, balanced to unbalanced connection - 1/4in jack - Pleiades V4, Vb=3.4V - Realistic disco mixer - Sennheiser HD 580










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