New Sennheiser Active Setup

[kskreider]

Here is a more recent picture of Heather (formerly Howard)  She wants to speak with you about your 'mic placement'.

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

those mics are super small, they look about the same length of the Neumann 40/50 cap alone

Actually they are quite close.

KM140          3.68" x 0.880"
MKH8040       3.50" x 0.748"

[kskreider]

those mics are super small, they look about the same length of the Neumann 40/50 cap alone

Actually they are quite close.

KM140          3.68" x 0.880"
MKH8040       3.50" x 0.748"

KM140 is not the AK40/50 as you quoted, but includes the km100 body as well.  What Mark meant was that the 140 combo and the 8040 combo are almost the same size.

The kicker is that the km100 body has circuitry and the 8040's 'body' is just an XLR connector which really means when Sennheiser starts to sell parts folks can make these similar in size to the CCM series.

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Correction:  I went by someone on this thread said it's 3 1/2" long.  According to Senn. data on the site they are way smaller.  Yet with the active cables the 8040 would infact be longer.  I think...


ak40   1.20"
km100  2.48"
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total  3.68"

8040 cap  1.61"
xlr       1.30"
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total     2.91"



for reference   km184   4.21"


another question.  Couldn't you just buy caps and the actives and not buy the xlr portion...then mod the cables to terminate in xlr?  Hmm..

[Crumbo]

another question.  Couldn't you just buy caps and the actives and not buy the xlr portion...then mod the cables to terminate in xlr?  Hmm..

I'm hoping this can be done

[F.O.Bean]

Here is the rep that I dealt with from Full Compass:

Heather L. Paske
Sales Associate
Full Compass Systems, Ltd. 8001 Terrace Avenue
Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: 1-800-356-5844, Ext. 1138
Fax: 1-608-831-6330
E-Mail: paske@fullcompass.com

a woman selling high end audio gear, love it!!! I may have a lot of questions about this gear I need to discuss with her 

I bet you have a few diff kinds of gear you want to discuss

[kskreider]

another question.  Couldn't you just buy caps and the actives and not buy the xlr portion...then mod the cables to terminate in xlr?  Hmm..

I think that what you would need is the [proprietary] end housing of the extension cable (careful about calling an active cable)

Can someone that has a set say whether the XLR portion of the mic 'screws apart' into, say a XLR piece and a threaded piece that screws back on to the capsule?

i.e. is it [capsule]-[XLR] or [capsule]-[X]-[XLR] with the - being a threaded union.

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Correct.  I wonder if both ends of the cables are the same?  Then you could buy 2 caps and 1 cable.  Cut that baby in half and wire em to xlr.  That would be way to easy though.   

[Crumbo]

here's a pic of the cap and xlr module

don't have the remote cables

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Looks like the cables with be similar looking to the LC3's.  Still would be sweet to wire the cables to XLR.  After all doesn't that portion not have any electronics in it?  Is the xlr portion really lightweight compared to the cap?

[Crumbo]

Looks like the cables with be similar looking to the LC3's.  Still would be sweet to wire the cables to XLR.  After all doesn't that portion not have any electronics in it?  Is the xlr portion really lightweight compared to the cap?

Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 g (55 g including XLR module

[F.O.Bean]

damn, just over 2 ounces for the cap+xlr module? thats crazy light!

[rokpunk]

damn, just over 2 ounces for the cap+xlr module? thats crazy light!

that's because it's not weighed down with mud, like schoeps.

[John Willett]

Couldn't you just buy caps and the actives and not buy the xlr portion...then mod the cables to terminate in xlr?  Hmm..

In theory - yes.

The remote cables are, in fact, stereo and (no doubt) a Y-cable will be coming shortly, as well as a 5-pin XLR end to put two heads down the same cable (for a compact ORTF rig, for example).

The AES42 module will come in 2008 and that is also stereo.

I wonder if both ends of the cables are the same?  Then you could buy 2 caps and 1 cable.  Cut that baby in half and wire em to xlr.  That would be way to easy though.   

No, the screw connectors on the remote cable are different - male one end and female the other - one  end mirrors the female thread of the capsule and the other mirroes the male thread of the XLR module.

[Crumbo]

Robert Randolph & The Family Band
House Of Blues
Chicago, IL
December 21, 2007


Taper: Crumbo
Location:  SDB Cage, ~35' from the stage, 6' ROC
Source: Source: Sennheiser MKH 8040 (ORTF, ~8')> SD 722 (24/96)
Conversion: SD 722 > Wavelab 5.01b (resample, dither w/MegaBitMax) > CDWav 1.94.4 > xACT 0.5.7 > foobar2000

here's a 16 bit flac sample:  http://www.mediafire.com/?0fudwexgijx
Diane (Summertime)

uploading the whole show to the archive now