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Title: mk012 problem
Post by: momule on March 29, 2004, 09:35:54 PM

I bought a pair of of ebay last summer. well long story short I kep buying and selling my gear fatser than I could tape so I never even used the mic's well I plugged into the Ua-5 the other day and Now I get very little/no signal out of one of um, Is there something i might be missing or is there a way to test it . Or anyone have any ideas of what may cause this. should I take the thing apart and see if anything has become loose or the solder broke ?

Im kinda at a lost of what to do. Reall a big bummer as I was hoping to tape a buddy's band this weekend.

Thank's In advance
Nick

Title: Re:mk012 problem
Post by: jpschust on March 29, 2004, 09:38:17 PM

nick, if youve got a sturdy tbar you can use the ts.com loaner mics (oktava mk319s)  

Title: Re:mk012 problem
Post by: BJ on March 29, 2004, 09:54:40 PM

I must say, jp...that was an excellent program you devised!  another +t....it's even more exceiting to see it in action! ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re:mk012 problem
Post by: jpschust on March 29, 2004, 09:59:20 PM

thanks, i just wanna see it in use :-)

Title: Re:mk012 problem
Post by: fozzy on March 29, 2004, 11:36:49 PM

check the solder 2nd but i would flip the caps around and see if it is the body or the cap.  the mk012's have button connection thingy that could cause problems if the cap isn't all the way seated or cross threaded.

Title: Re:mk012 problem
Post by: momule on March 30, 2004, 09:02:32 AM

I tried swapping the cap's that's what got me to thinking the body was bad, as I have a bunch of braqndnew shit so I started testing everything . and the only thing that didnt work was the one mic. all other cable and so forth were tested using the other mic,

And Big thank's to Blake for the Ts loaner mic offer. That is a great idea for the around these parts.

Another ? I bought 20' Mogami cable's and I noticed the other day on the Ua-5 that there is a Hi-z/Low-z
how do i find this?

Title: Re:mk012 problem
Post by: mgleason007 on April 01, 2004, 03:45:20 AM

Hi-Z is for things such as guitars.  You want Lo-Z.

Title: Re:mk012 problem
Post by: Nicaragua on April 02, 2004, 07:18:20 PM

check and see if all the screws are still in place in the body.  I had a similar problem awile back.  what happened, since the screws screw in not out, one of them fell into the actual body and became lodged between some circuitry.   if it looks like you are missing a screw i'd say take it apart and check it out

Title: Re:mk012 problem
Post by: Stumptown Matt on April 02, 2004, 07:49:28 PM

Switch channels(from right to left or vise versa) on the UA-5 to make sure the phantom power is working correctly.