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Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:24 pm

I asked this at FL over a year ago...less the 10 came clean...be honest...how many do you have? I have one...looks similar to a 58 but a brown color...it was around thirty bux 10 or so years ago...

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:45 pm

No Radio Shacks, but I do have a Peavy or two sitting around.

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:48 pm

I have a piezo-transducer I got at a Radio Shack-like store. Does that count?

Groet, Erik

ross g · Post by **ross g** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:49 pm

i have 2 radio shack pzm mics, they are made by crown, they have 1/4" plugs and take a "aa" battery, but i understand you can feed more volts for a higher output (isn't there a higher volt batt that fits in a aa space?), in fact i have a third pzm with xlr and a phantom power mod, i used the 1/4" jobbies for stereo sampling (i had a handle rigged with the mics back to back), running a drum loop thru a guitar amp and sampling while moving the mics past the speaker works great! the phantom power mod is out there somewhere on the web...pzm's are absolutly great, really flexable, and the radio shack versions are less expensive than the crown brand and just as effective-if you see 'em, buy 'em

rg

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:58 pm

ross g wrote:i have 2 radio shack pzm mics, they are made by crown, they have 1/4" plugs and take a "aa" battery, but i understand you can feed more volts for a higher output (isn't there a higher volt batt that fits in a aa space?), in fact i have a third pzm with xlr and a phantom power mod, i used the 1/4" jobbies for stereo sampling (i had a handle rigged with the mics back to back), running a drum loop thru a guitar amp and sampling while moving the mics past the speaker works great! the phantom power mod is out there somewhere on the web...pzm's are absolutly great, really flexable, and the radio shack versions are less expensive than the crown brand and just as effective-if you see 'em, buy 'em

rg

I agree with you 100% though I wasn't aware that radio shacks pzm's were crown. I knew crown made pzm's but they were much more expensive.

Many uses for those imo, They're great on the floor beneath the toms of a kit, they're great in a kick. Try putting em on a board 4'x4', use two and record a band live putting them at the back of the venue...they're quite useful, though haven't the need for one now...

kaden · Post by **kaden** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:01 pm

The Radio Shack PZMs are brilliant mics...use 2 'N' batteries (yes, there's such a thing) in place of the AA to give about 300% more headroom.

I have about 8 of 'em...

K

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:43 pm

kaden wrote:The Radio Shack PZMs are brilliant mics...use 2 'N' batteries (yes, there's such a thing) in place of the AA to give about 300% more headroom.

I have about 8 of 'em...

K

okay off topic but...this battery thing..I dont get it

there's no "A", no "B" but a "C" and "D" (too bad the same cant be said about women

). There is a double A a triple A, now an "N"...me thinks they expiremented with other forms of acid besides just battery acid...hmmm maybe I should drop a watch battery and see what happens...

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:08 pm

I used to have this incredibly shitty mic that came with the SoundBlaster mp3+ cards they used at work. The thing just exploded with the slightest hint of breath going into it - BUT - for some reason, it recorded Acoustic Guitars amazingly well! It was about the hottest mic ever created, maybe that's why. I use a Studio Projects B1 now, but a couple of those cheap-ass tracks will stay on the next album along with their better-recorded counterparts! Go figure.

I did use Radio Shack mics a lot in the 80's, come to think of it, recording nasty New Wave demos.

ross g · Post by **ross g** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:40 pm

ah yes, the"n" battery, i'll go pick up a few...i had to go check my "mic cabinet" (milk crate under the desk) and the 3 pzm's are branded "Realistic PZM"...the modded one i have is marked "48v phantom power" (i didn't do the mod, i got it that way)and has a small circuit board with a few caps and resistors along with an ic or two stuffed into the battery compartment, kind of hard to see, but looks simple enough for those in the know... it works great, i've used it with a t-shirt over it for a wind screen for vox, i recorded a horn section with the 1/4" versions, great for drum OH's, mounting to a plexiglass or other solid surface increases bass response,supposed to not suffer from phase cancle as other mics can when used in stereo pairs, a true flexible workhorse-NOW GO BUY THEM!!!

rg

Col.G · Post by **Col.G** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:39 pm

I use a Radio Shack 33-3004 mic.
Yeah it's a rip off of a Shure 58, but it's just as tough and almost as good sound-wise. 40 bucks.

smart · Post by **smart** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:27 pm

I only have an AKG C1000 S, and that's it. I should have got a cheap dynamic though since I hardly use the thing.

TVD · Post by **TVD** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:32 pm

Hink wrote:I asked this at FL over a year ago...less the 10 came clean...be honest...how many do you have? I have one...looks similar to a 58 but a brown color...it was around thirty bux 10 or so years ago...

I have one that is still brand new. Why? You want it?

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 11:24 pm

actually radio shack sells condenser mic elements for about 2 dollars. those are the little chips that a company would use say on a telephone or something that needs a cheap mic on it. i read an article that you can build your own headphone/microphones(binaurals) out of them

http://art.simon.tripod.com/stealth.html

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 11:34 pm

i tried the quick and nasty 'tape-a-pp3(9v)-to-the-battery-box' mod with my realistic pzm (from Tandy in the uk) and it worked fine, definite improvement.

a bit 'ghetto' though as the PC mod crowd would say...

.g

CC4 · Post by **CC4** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:03 am

can you make a mic with one of their 201 electronic learning lab kits?

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