Colin, you're giving me an itch to try my Behringer Eurorack
field mixer on my 590. It only has three band EQ, but it would
be fun just to try it and see if it worked at all. My hunch is
that I would get a bunch of RF in the mixer. I got the thing
originally to record some of my gigs, but it proved to be too
much hassle to set everything up to record the gig and then play
at the same time trying to adjust gains to get some semblance of
a balance to it. 73, Jim WA6EKS
----- Original Message -----
From: Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:05:07 -0700
Subject: Re: Apex 850
If you can get a patch cable made up that goes from the 4 pin
mike jack on
the radio, and splits out into one female XLR jack for audio, and
a pigtail
or female quarterinch/eighth inch jack for the PTT switch, then
you can run
any sort of outboard audio gear you want using xlr connections.
You can get say an Art microphone/instrument preamp with a 12ax7
tube in it
for around 50 bucks from your local yorkville equipment retailer,
like Long
and McQuade.
That said, the older tube radios usually have plenty of preamp
gain for the
microphone input so an external preamp isn't necesary...unless
you get a
preamp with some tone controls or an equalizer built in...which
might cost
you 75 bucks lol.
The reason devices like the W2IHY equalizer box is so popular is
because he
uses isolation transformers and ferrite filters to eliminate RF
interference
in the audio signal path...something you can usually eliminate by
proper
rf/electrical grounding of the radio and any outboard audio
stuff...
So yeah, you could mess around with that stuff if you get a cable
with a
female xlr jack for the audio input of the rig.
I haven't played HF in such a long time, but I have an art tube
preamp and
another behringer tube preamp sitting around that I should hook
up to the
old TS830s one of these days and see how they work with the shure
SM58.
I've also got a pro audio gator rack with a couple dual 31 band
EQ's and a
compressor/limiter/gate and a spare 6 channel mixer that I could
throw on
the HF rig for fun haha.
Either that, or get around to sending the ts2000 out to
california for
repares and get that back on the air so I can play radio again
with
something younger than me lol.
Lots of projects, not enough time...as always.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ryan
Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:44 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Apex 850
I'm really hoping the Apex 850 I picked up a couple of weeks ago
works,
despite the fellow who took a look at it messed around with mic
it self
plus the 30 dollar cable purchased from a guy who makes and sells
them from
Ontario.
I dunno why he had to mess around with the mic, cable ok but not
the mic. I
tried it out in the store with everything set to flat on the
mixer and I
really enjoyed the sound in the headphones I was waring. Total
cost of the
stand, gooseneck boom arm, connecting cable and mic was 100. I
had a foot
switch already but if had to buy 1 new, call it 50 bucks.
Sounded way
better than my Heil Pro Micro duel for the same cost of 150 and
probably
sounds as good as the HM-12 or even the more expensive 2 or 300
dollar
pieces.
I may even just start over and throw this in the junk box and go
get
another and have someone else look at the cable I liked the sound
of this
apex so much. Apparently if you bump it now, you get a little
feed back
etc. I haven't used it yet, picking it up this saturday. Colin,
can you
describe this mic to preamp setup? Is it something that I could
get going
on my own?
I don't have enough sight to dig around with cable rewiring but I
guess any
compitent music tech in a music store should be able to help if I
show the
pin out of my FT-102 mic input jack.
73:
Mike DE VO1AX
Sent with AquaMail for Android
http://www.aqua-mail.com
|
