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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: AT853rxwh on April 18, 2004, 10:09:42 AM
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Ok, first post so take it easy! Obviously this is intended for those on a seriously low budget. Those with cash need not look :P
Go to www.canakit.com
Look for UK495 Preassembled it is $9.71 For stereo you will need 2.
Add a Serpac enclosure, and a couple of 3.5mm minijacks and a miniswitch.
you will need to remove one of the battery snaps and jumper the power from one board to the other. You will also have to tie the grounds together for the minijacks.
If you do all this right, you will have a mic preamp with phantom power, on the VERY cheap.
Total cost round $30 (depending on what parts you have to buy)
you could try to leave the cheapie mic elements in and switch them out ALA Sound Professionals, but I wouldn't think the mic's would sound that great.
Will take some digital pics when I can.
Here is the circuit board
(http://www.canakit.com/Images/Items/UK495L.jpg)
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That is pretty cool!
Mike I think the part you have is for the unassembled kit. Here's the assembled one.
http://www.canakit.com/Default.asp?Contents=/Include/Template/MenuCat.asp&Main=http://www.canakit.com/Contents/Items/UK495.asp (http://www.canakit.com/Default.asp?Contents=/Include/Template/MenuCat.asp&Main=http://www.canakit.com/Contents/Items/UK495.asp)
I wonder if the capsules could be switched out with the panasonic ones that people use for the altoid box mics. This seems like a pretty cool project to play around with.
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+T Very Nice. I love to see this original, innovative stuff!
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UK495 is the part for assembled or unassembled. You have to look it up under the assembled stuff. Or if you are really up for a challenge, save 2 bucks and assemble it yourself.
So far the only weirdness is that if the mics are not connected you will get a hetrodyne noise. I tried taping today at church and it sounded pretty good for as far back as we sat.
Setup
Mics > Preamp > NJB3
Definately helped to have the gain on the Jukebox set to +6 (prolly could go +9 for the quiet stuff) 0 was definately too quiet by itself, but for a loud venue it might work ok.
Think I am going to throw another one together with the original MIC elements and see how they sound...
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If you want it to look really cool, combine it with this:
(http://www.canakit.com/Images/Items/UK106L.jpg)
And if you want to get really funky, add a 3 band spectrum analyzer
(http://www.canakit.com/Images/Items/UK109L.jpg)
You could have a VU meter and a combined spectrum analyzer.
Course the more das blinkin lights the better chance that the tape gestapo will get ya, but the VU meter could be at least useful...
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That is pretty cool!
Mike I think the part you have is for the unassembled kit. Here's the assembled one.
http://www.canakit.com/Default.asp?Contents=/Include/Template/MenuCat.asp&Main=http://www.canakit.com/Contents/Items/UK495.asp (http://www.canakit.com/Default.asp?Contents=/Include/Template/MenuCat.asp&Main=http://www.canakit.com/Contents/Items/UK495.asp)
I wonder if the capsules could be switched out with the panasonic ones that people use for the altoid box mics. This seems like a pretty cool project to play around with.
As long as the panasonics will take 9v, it should.
Now I just need to search around for a -20db pad circuit...
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According to the Digi-Key website, they are voltage rated at 2V, but the bat box that powers them is 9V.
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http://mp3forkidz.com/mic/
this is the altoid mic box, if anyone was wondering....
such a cool idea
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really cool link!