On 11/02/2013 08:51 PM, Michael Chapman wrote:
PS The wonders of recording with fifty metres of CAT-5 lead have to be experienced !!!
absolutely. we just used an eigenmike (2nd version, with the handle) off of a 75m cat6 lead, and it was very convenient. i flew it upside-down on the neutrik ethercon, with a thin safety line attached to both cable and mic body just in case. worked like a charm, now that mh acoustics finally got their act together and fixed the cable driver (the first eigenmike was horrible in that respect)...
now if somebody made an analog tetramic-to-CAT5 interface like the insta-snake, small box about the size of the handle of an sm58, one end with 6pin mini-xlr and maybe a rubber gasket to hold the tetramic, four balancing transformers/ppas to match the twisted pair, and a nice ethercon at the end, i would order it right now. and with the ethercon, the shield could be properly wired to the connector sleeve, which i'd find more robust than the instasnake magic...
i'm using a 4-core with the tetra right now, but i'm still depending on the flimsy split and the four ugly ppas (well, each of them looks good, but certainly not a bunch of four), all in plain sight... not the most relaxing setup for a recording where you usually can't get to the microphone easily.
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