I bought a pair of ex-theatre DPA 4060's off ebay. I did read the warnings on this forum beforehand, as well as reports from some satisfied buyers, and decided to take a chance.
They came with no connectors, and although I'm a rank amateur with a soldering iron, I managed to get a 3.5 mm stereo plug on the end and test them out.
My SONY M10 didn't seem to have enough juice using plug-in power, while plugging the mics into an SP-SPSB-8 battery box and going line-in wasn't a whole lot louder. Going mic-in (no PIP) with the batt box was louder still but sounded noisier on one channel and also had some distortion.
I then went mic-in to a SONY D50 using plug-in power and got very good level. However, the mics seem
exceptionally noisy. Although there is no distortion and it's a good recording, there seems to me to be an awful lot of hiss.
Here's a sample recording of some percussion sounds about 24" from the mics. [DPA 4060'S > SONY D50, mic-in PIP, record level 5.0]
http://www.box.net/shared/7tvtagxsm9hsfsu6329eCould this be the result of a lousy soldering job? Or are these mics burned out? Or is this typical of DPA's?
Or do I need to clean them as I have seen suggested here? If cleaning is the answer, could someone who has done that to a pair of DPA 4060's please lay out the procedure for me? I'd hate to make matters worse!
Also, is the plug-in power of the D50 rated higher than the M10? Has anyone had success with DPA's going mic-in PIP to the M10?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Phillip