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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: Nixoo on April 28, 2008, 04:34:21 AM
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I just bought a pair of DPA's from ebay and they are terminated into Lemo connectors. They are said to be 3 pin connectors. I want to cut the Lemo's and connect into 1/8 minijack. Those are just two wire as in hot and shield. I'm confused :) I've seen numerous people on this forum that have changed the connectors in 1/8 jacks but following their advice leads me to think they have different wiring? Are lemo's something different than Microdots?
These are the ones I bought:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130216135839
Any helpfull insight is highly appreciated!
Thanks :)
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Helluva buy!! Here's a discussion on my mics modded in the same fashion, only cost me $15, as I recall.
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,57120.msg750446.html#msg750446
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I thought it was a good deal too! And it even was a Buy-it-now. One day before expiration, no bidders yet, starting bid was 149 usd.. I was too affraid to take the chance on bidding so I went for it :)
Thanks for that link. I still don't understand how you can connect the 3 wire lemo's into a two wire 1/8 mini-jack. I mean, a minijack has a tip for lets say left, ring for right and the shield for ground. So only two wires of the each dpa mic is actually connected to the mini-jack. What about the 3rd wire in the lemo??
Maybe I should just let someone else do the job and pay for it. Problem is the high shipping Sound Professionals charges for overseas.. Anyone else up for it for a reasonable price? Any dutchies around?
+T btw :)
UPDATE:
I just grabbed a pair of scissors and cutted of the lemo connectors. It appeared the DPA mics have 2 wires each. Problem solved :)
Soldering seems quite easy, not as small as I thought it would be. I'll add a drop of hotglue after soldering for strength.
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yup.
shield and little skinny contact. basically a coax cable for the most part...only really thin.
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These lemo connectors are for Zaxcom wireless. My guess is they were using them (wireless) for their theatre stuff.
Wayne
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Thanks for the info guys!
In the meantime, I've converted the two seperate connections into the 1/8" mini-jack, soldering, hotglue and all. Dissapointment.. When test-recording, one mic showed signal the other barely. Looking at the levelmeter, one channel peaked at 3/4th of the scale while the other channel was still at none, and while increasing the level, it just moved a bit. I'll see if I made any soldering misstakes, and in fact I hope so. Otherwise I might have bought a broken mic which I have cut the lemo of. No way the seller is going to take it back I guess.. Should have tested them before cutting :( :(
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bummer.
:(
+T for effort!