The MXL 990 remains one of the industrys most ground-breaking microphone: its a high-quality condenser microphone for working musicians.The MXL 990 has a FET preamp and a large diaphragm for truly professional sound quality in both digital and analog recordings.
This condenser microphone continues to astound artists with its silky, high-end and t. Please call or chat to check your local store inventory for this item. This condenser microphone continues to astound artists with its silky, high-end and tight, solid low and midrange reproduction. Over the coming months I will be offering up other Instructables. Update 20160123: I continue to learn, and have found that using 22lb copier paper instead of parchment paper yields a much more pronounced corrugation in the ribbon. Also, in place of the brass nut, I switched to a brass tube, so I can rotate the tube to help align the ribbon. My initial idea of the nut was to prevent you from being able to rotate it, but I have found you need a way to help center the ribbon. Its always fascinated me how expensive good ribbon microphones were, yet their construction was terribly simple. If you traverse the web, youll see Im certainly not the first to go down this path of homemade Ribbon Mics. Mxl Mics 990 Series Of TubesThere are a number of good resources out there on the series of tubes. My approach has been to use cheap microphone bodies and upgrade, rather than making a body from scratch. This has some limitations with respect to the dimensions of the body, but I think it gives a much more professional look. At the same time, you now have to convince someone that the guts in that MXL is a whole lot better than they might think. But once they listen to it, I think they will be able to make that judgement themselves. In addition, with my new 3-D printer, I figured I could design and print anything I might need to help the process, and it seemed some tools and jigs were missing from all of the other posts I had seen. I saw he had everything you need to make a Ribbon mic element (motor), transformers and even a complete mic, along with an excellent set of instructions and videos. He was very easy to communicate with, and I had numerous emails with him before I even bought the kit. But to save some time and cash, I wanted to upfit an old MXL mic. Mxl Mics 990 How To Improve WhatBeing an engineer, the first thing I did immediately after ordering my kit, was to look how to improve what was already a good thing. A couple of things immediately struck me. Mxl Mics 990 Full Well II knew full well I would need to eventually re-ribbon the thing. You will need an MXL 990 mic, and the 3-D printer files on thingiverse. Why MXL Mics In a word, theyre cheap, easy to find, and many folks buy them as part of their 1st studio equipment, to then end up tossing them in the back of the closet somewhere as they move on to get better quality gear. While ripping the inner layers of mesh out of the basket is a bit of a pain in the butt, you cant beat them as a nice mic body as a base for an upgrade. I often find them used for less than 50 each on craigslist, and found 4 for 25 each. Sticking a quality Ribbon Motor and Transformer into one, quickly turns them into sounding like a mic costing 1,000 or more. Series This is in fact the 1st in a series of Instructables, with adjoining 3-D printable files to either upgrade or entirely build a Ribbon Microphone.
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