dear michael the brahma mic can be used with any four channel system that can provide plug in power of atleast two volts. it is very simple providing a small box, with a nine volt battery inside, a female five pin connector and four male xlrs to use it with any recorder. i prefer the nine volt battery route to providing full phantom power circuits because it is definitely less noisy, especially when using small battery powered location recorders, which have to generate the phantom voltage.the xlr outputs will be impedance balanced so longish cables can still be used. if the cables are truly long some kind of buffering has to be provided. i can make you this box if you want. i originally made brahma with a screw on tuchel connector to use it directly on the zoom H2. i have realised since that even with the zoom H2 the mike is better off with a cable connection to the recorder. one can then check the recorder without disturbing the mike. i have changed to a five pin xlr connector. i am sending this off list as i do not think it is of much interest to other sursounders. umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 09:21:41 +0900 > From: loop...@gmail.com > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Brahma mic users? > > umanshankar, > > There is one thing that is not clear to me from the website. The > Brahma mic seems essentially designed for use with the Zoom H2. I'd > like to also use the microphone with my Tascam DR-680 if at all > possible. I have no doubt it could be used with other recorders, but > it is not clear if you sell something like a breakout cable to enable > use with a regular recorder with 4 channels of XLR input. Also, if I > were to buy the fully built kit, would the microphone be removable to > allow it to still be used with another recorder in this way? It seems > as though it is simply screwed on via the connector, so my guess is it > can be removed, but I can't tell for certain. > > thanks > Michael > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, umashankar mantravadi > <umasha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > dear michael > > > > i do not mind at all, and would in fact like to hear from people who have > > used my mic, or heard recordings made with it. > > > > Angelo has ten of them, and a 11th made with TSB 120 capsules which he has > > tested and calibrated and used for recordings. i have not heard these > > recordings myself. > > > > one member of this group, hector centano, has a brahma and i heard nice > > sounding recordings he has made with it. > > > > the first thing i must point out if you want to buy a brahma is you will > > have to calibrate the microphone yourself. at the moment i am not set up > > for doing this. (hector and i have both used them uncalibrated, with a kind > > of best fit approach). depending on your skill levels and parts > > availability, you can build it yourself (using the required parts from > > shapeways), do only the zoom modification yourself, or get me to make the > > whole thing. (we can discuss that off list) > > > > > > umashankar > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110519/c7617ec6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
