> 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...
> J�rn Nettingsmeier Mmmm .... I tried 'nudging' Len years back: Mainly laziness, but also a moral feeling that it is his product and he should have first bite at making the accessories. Then i ordered some bits off him to start making one, and (IIRC) he wished me well and even suggested i should think of commercialising it if it worked . . . (So all credit for his positive and open-minded response.) I had a young student (well younger than me) and we had this scheduled, but more interesting projects intervened. (I lack 3-D vision for close objects, which makes fiddling with micro-connections 'challenging';-)> Anyway to the point: The PP units invert the signal. Can this be avoided (not against inversion, but see next) ? The whole project becomes much easier (naìvely) if one has only one 48V to 5V converter. Is that a realistic possibility? You've obviously considered this! Still have this as an ambition .... so any other users' comments would be appreciated. Michael With one converter i thought the whole thing might go in a 'box' like the Neutrik Cat-5 to Cat-5 female/female connector ... _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
