Topic: Where to get those Panasonic capsules used for homebrew mics?

[j.mart]

X-mas is coming up and i feel like making some baby tapers

If someone could point me where i can buy 4 of this capsules so i can make stereo sets to a couple of friends, i would appreciate that.

-joao

[SparkE!]

Digikey.com has them.

[beefstew]

yeah they are like $1.80 per capsul @ digikey

if u buy like 10 you can possibly match a pair and just in case u damage a capsul by heating too much with solder gun, you have spares

[SparkE!]

And heating too much with a soldering iron is definitely a potential problem.  I think it causes the electret element to lose some of its polarization voltage.

[BobW]

http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Criteria?Ref=15441&Site=US&Cat=31327132
http://dkc3.digikey.com/PDF/T063/1693.pdf
http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/components/pdf/em06_wm61_a_b_dne.pdf

http://www.libinst.com/micassem.htm
http://webpages.charter.net/tidmarsh/binmic/

My favorite DIY mic project


Homebrew USM69i
http://www.mp3forkidz.com/mic/

[j.mart]

Thanks for all the answers and T to all. However digikey doesn't seem to have the 20-20k model used (wm-61 i think). Is there any other place i can get them? I think this is the one: WM-61A right? 20-20k

Yeah, if they're that cheap, i'll buy more than 2 pairs.. I'm no soldering wiz either and a f' up is more than likely.

[poorlyconditioned]

Thanks for all the answers and T to all. However digikey doesn't seem to have the 20-20k model used (wm-61 i think). Is there any other place i can get them? I think this is the one: WM-61A right? 20-20k

Yeah, if they're that cheap, i'll buy more than 2 pairs.. I'm no soldering wiz either and a f' up is more than likely.

+T and welcome to the hacker world!  Check out the Yahoo group "micbuilders".  That is where the contraption above came from...

  Richard

[Sanjay]

radioshack has em too.  but much more expensive ~$5.00

[poorlyconditioned]

radioshack has em too.  but much more expensive ~$5.00

Check the part#s at the shack.  Only buy WM61A.  Those are: full range, flat, high SNR.  Others may not meet all these criteria.

 Richard

[beefstew]

radioshack has em too.  but much more expensive ~$5.00

do you have a link?
i tired to look in my local store and they didnt have them... then i tried radioshack.com but i couldnt find them on there either

[Sanjay]

radioshack has em too.  but much more expensive ~$5.00

do you have a link?
i tired to look in my local store and they didnt have them... then i tried radioshack.com but i couldnt find them on there either

no link I remember I picked up a few a couple years ago to make a small stealth mic set for a friend.  They might not carry them anymore but they were in the parts bin.

[Church-Audio]

X-mas is coming up and i feel like making some baby tapers

If someone could point me where i can buy 4 of this capsules so i can make stereo sets to a couple of friends, i would appreciate that.

-joao

This is the only known source outside of earthworks that still have wm-60 capsules and he hand matches them sells them with calibration papers. so they can be used with analyzers.

Kim Girardin
Wadenhome Sound
1400 Homer Rd. Suite 2
Winona, MN, 55987, USA
507-454-8844
kmgrdn@luminet.net