Re: A couple of Qs

[John Frazer <jfrazer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you sure this is a low impedence mic? Usually a mini/1/8 inch jack 
will take a wide range of inputs. Why not just change either the plug or 
the jack so they will match and forget about the XLR adaptors?

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On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Richard Owen wrote:

> I have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1. My CX12 suffers from curling windsavers.  After every hour or so of
>    playing, I find that at least one of the windsavers has curled up, far
>    enough to leak noisily.  Does anyone else have this problem?  What do
>    you do?  I patiently straighten them out without removing them, but this
>    is a real pain.
> 
> 2. To plug a low impendance mic (1/8" jack) into a high impedance socket
>    (1/4") I am faced with:
> 
>    1/8" low Z -> 1/8" to 1/4" converter -> 1/4" to xlr converter ->
>    xlr low Z to 1/4" high Z matcher
> 
>    Yuk.  Any better ideas?  How hard can it be to make my own matcher
>    anyway.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> 
> +Richard
>