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KCY 250/5 Ig w/ PFA?
nolamule:
Making the leap to Schoeps and I am thinking of buying the KCY 250/5 Ig with a Naiant PFA.
Any reason not to go this route, other than price? I figure I can extended the cables with simple XLRs b/t the PFA and recorder if needed and this would limit the unbalanced section of the setup to just the KCY. I really like the idea of the single cable setup with the KCY and have true Schoeps connectors at the caps.
Ultfris101:
it's a good choice and will work very well. I have this setup and the single cable is indeed very nice.
Do you think you would ever want to get a wider split with the mic capsules? If so another option is to get KC5 cables and chop them and terminate them in PFAs.
I have some KC5s but haven't chopped them. They're nice but keeping them from getting tangled is hard for me.
I tend to use CMC6 bodies most of the time now but the KCY is great and any time a small rig i can run in ORTF or DIN is called for it's the way to go.
dnsacks:
jon (Naiant) has mentioned in the past that using "chopped" kc5s terminated with mini-xlrs for this solution will keep the connection balanced throughout. My kc5s are ziptied together at 12" intervals -- makes it easier to coil/maintain than without, but kc5s do take some patience to keep straight. I also had darktrain attach mini-xlrs to the "chopped" kc5 ends that attach to mic bodies, allowing me to use the kc5s with pfas or with cmc bodies (darktrain also made me a minixlr>binder connector that lets me run the kc5s into my tinybox) -- fwiw . . .
it-goes-to-eleven:
I also prefer KC5's over the KCY. I replaced the Schoeps cable with 1/8" cable.
nolamule:
--- Quote from: Ultfris101 on February 04, 2016, 06:47:54 PM ---it's a good choice and will work very well. I have this setup and the single cable is indeed very nice.
Do you think you would ever want to get a wider split with the mic capsules? If so another option is to get KC5 cables and chop them and terminate them in PFAs.
I have some KC5s but haven't chopped them. They're nice but keeping them from getting tangled is hard for me.
I tend to use CMC6 bodies most of the time now but the KCY is great and any time a small rig i can run in ORTF or DIN is called for it's the way to go.
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I am going to be primarily running MK41s at first and don't expect to run a wider split but a very good point.
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