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 :)
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
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.
yup.
shield and little skinny contact. basically a coax cable for the most part...only really thin.
These lemo connectors are for Zaxcom wireless. My guess is they were using them (wireless) for their theatre stuff.
Wayne
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 :( :(
bummer.
:(
+T for effort!