RE: [Harp-L] Shure 545 repair?

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FJM,

Greg Heumann did an awesome job restoring/modifying a 545 for me. If you
check his web site, I think you'll see that he's done a lot of work on
545s. I have two, one is in very good shape so I left it 'stock'. The
other was pretty banged up so I had Greg remove the heavy pistol grip,
make it straight-barrel, put on a volume control, and switch it to lo-z
XLR so I can use it with a wireless rig at some point without the
lo-z/hi-z wireless issue to deal with. It looks great and sounds great
now! Plus Greg turned it around for me pretty quick, and was very
attentive to detail and communicated very well through the process.

Bill Hines
Hershey, PA

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From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:50 AM
To: h-l
Subject: [Harp-L] Shure 545 repair?

My older Shure 545 died at a gig last night.  It was being flaky, 
cutting in an out.  Then I dropped it gone.  I did get one last gasp out

of it after that, about 5 songs worth but now it is totally dead.  Who 
fixes these?  Archive searches yield Larry Price's name.  Fritz with an 
H and perhaps Dennis O.  I seem to recall seeing that Ron Holmes fixes 
mic's too.  Am I missing anyone and is there anyone who has had a 545 
fixed and if you did who did you use and how did things turn out? 
George Brooks, what mic are you using these days?  I seem to recall it's

not the 545 anymore.  My back up 520 gave me fits too.  Loose 1/4" plug 
in the body.  I hadn't used it in so long it had just ratt;led loose.  I

ended up using an AT vocal mic.  I want my 545 back amongst the living.
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