Would the AT933's benefit from a similar modification?
Used them a couple weeks ago and had a huge overload problem . . . they just couldn't handle it.
Recording is distorted in many places.
Yep. They're pretty similar. AT831 are also very close.
For my stuff I use a (hard-wired) 3-wire battery box. But if you have an existing battery box and mic set (eg., from Soundprofessionals), then you should be able to do the "4.7k mod". Let's call it the "Church" mod, since I think no other retailer is doing this. (Soundpros don't do any mods, while CoreSound does the Linkwitz mod.)
By the way, please don't ask me to do this. I don't want to get into doing mods for others. I sell a few mic sets, etc, when I get overloaded, but I don't want to do mods.
Hmm. Maybe Chris would do this for you (or others?). It might be a useful service for those with existing mic sets. On reflection, this is probably nicer than the 3-wire battery box, especially for those that already have a "standard" 2-wire one...
Can you solder? If so, take apart the miniplug. You'll probably see yellow wire (*) shorted to ground (shield), and a red wire for each of channels (L: tip, R: ring). Seperate the yellow wire and insert a 4.7k resistor between yellow and shield, and try it out. You may not be able to do this inside the connector, but you could probably hack at the cable and do it somehow (
). Remember to use lots of shrinkwrap and hot melt glue
(*) Some AT mics have a white wire instead of yellow. So they are either shield/yellow/red or shield/white/red. Also, some mics have a pair of each yellow and red (star quad cable) and others just have a single wire for each.
Richard