Hey Jules, love your content. Thank you for the time and effort taken to put this together. After your kind help by email, I am really enjoying my mics built with your circuits. A few on other groups have criticised your component layout as not being ideal but I have yet to experience any problems!
Not sure what the complaints on component layout are. The circuit works as designed, and many have been built. The newer ones are all SMD and they work just like the through hole ones.
I have designed a capsule support that enables you to mountbthe 2 capsules right on axis. Itvwas for another capsule diameter (tsb160) but I can adapt it verybeasily to your capsule.
Perfect! I have been thinking about making a similar mic for quite some time now, and see that you have already done it. and named it the same as my younger sister! My parents announced her name about a week before Tabitha on Bewitched was announced. Love the Bewitched font for the Tabitha name, though. I am curious as to why you used the pair of out of polarity cardioids instead of the single bi-directional capsule that is also available at JLI. Do the 2 capsules work together for better output, better noise or something? Just curious, but thanks for sharing your work! BTW, I just subscribed, but thought I had done so a long time ago. I'm here now, though! :)
Hey! Welcome to my channel. The reason I used the two capsules wired out of phase is that this: Both capsules are Electret with no FET. That let me use my OPA circuit for excellent audio specs on distortion and noise. I have not found a figure 8 capsule that I really like yet. Other than a full ribbon mic ;-) This method works really well. Amazingly well. Check out four of them in an immersive array in my Train and Tunnel Drum videos.
Just looking at the datasheet for the bidirectional capsule(JLI 1660), I see that it has the internal FET, and the JLI 165 does not. I'm guessing that's why you are using it with the modified Schoeps circuit. Am I correct? Also in your opinion, would the 1660 be a good candidate for the P48 circuit? Thanks!
You always seem too make the mic's that I have been thinking of lately haha. Not sure if it would work but I've often thought about using a strategically placed figure 8 with a long shotgun mic so you can have an track to pick fill on your sides when you want to and possibly use it to help minimize your rear lobe in post. Thoughts?
@ lol you went there didn’t you! 🤣. Technically I am flipping the polarity. Although the control in Reaper and most mixers is labeled Phase. If there is no time delay, it is the same. But I get the phase shift due to time delay not being identical.
@@SoundSleuth I am going to play the nit-picker here. First, let's agree that just because a control is labelled one way does not mean that is the proper use of that term. There are multiple generations of players who misuse the terms "vibrato" and "tremolo" because Leo Fender switched them and never corrected that mistake. But to the greater point, @Scodiddly is correct. Polarity is a description of a single sound source, phase describes a relationship between two or more sound sources. One source can never be in or out of phase in a standalone description of itself, that only exists as a state of relationship relative to another source. In the side capsule, you flip the duplicated channel's polarity in order to affect its phase relative to the original. Words have meanings. Okay, rant over. Otherwise, super cool video. I think I might go get one of those kits!
@ Thanks! Vibrato and tremolo are very different 🤣. I think I’m going to go with “Invert” the signal and mix it in… then I stay away from phase and polarity. 👍🏻
Already built one and used it recently for recording a guitar. Thanks for putting this together!
Excellent! It is a great mic
I have almost 0 idea why you don't have 20x the subs and 100x the views, seriously. This is 🔥Keep up the absolutely beautiful work, man!
Thanks! I'm working on the subscribers and views!
Very interesting video! I have become really nerdy about mics since starting my youtube channel!
Me too! Based on your TH-cam handle I’m guessing you use Home Assistant. I do as well. I’ve got a lost os ESPhome additions too.
@@SoundSleuth Oh cool yes I am crazy about home assistant and it is so great the ESP Home is now part of Home Assistant!
I use a Sure SM 7 at the moment but I do love the idea of building my own mic as the capsules are so affordable. I recently got into 3D Printing too!
@ check out my other mics as well. The circuit i am using is excellent
@@SoundSleuth Thank you I will do! Great work on your channel and website!
Hey Jules, love your content. Thank you for the time and effort taken to put this together. After your kind help by email, I am really enjoying my mics built with your circuits. A few on other groups have criticised your component layout as not being ideal but I have yet to experience any problems!
Not sure what the complaints on component layout are. The circuit works as designed, and many have been built. The newer ones are all SMD and they work just like the through hole ones.
I have designed a capsule support that enables you to mountbthe 2 capsules right on axis. Itvwas for another capsule diameter (tsb160) but I can adapt it verybeasily to your capsule.
Jules what a surprise 🙂🍾🍾🍾
in Reaper you have a native JS decoder for MS ☺
@@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials yes you do!
I want people to understand how it works. Way too many people just grab plugins without understanding what they actually do.
@@SoundSleuth yes I fully agree
Perfect! I have been thinking about making a similar mic for quite some time now, and see that you have already done it. and named it the same as my younger sister! My parents announced her name about a week before Tabitha on Bewitched was announced. Love the Bewitched font for the Tabitha name, though.
I am curious as to why you used the pair of out of polarity cardioids instead of the single bi-directional capsule that is also available at JLI. Do the 2 capsules work together for better output, better noise or something? Just curious, but thanks for sharing your work! BTW, I just subscribed, but thought I had done so a long time ago. I'm here now, though! :)
Hey! Welcome to my channel. The reason I used the two capsules wired out of phase is that this: Both capsules are Electret with no FET. That let me use my OPA circuit for excellent audio specs on distortion and noise. I have not found a figure 8 capsule that I really like yet. Other than a full ribbon mic ;-) This method works really well. Amazingly well. Check out four of them in an immersive array in my Train and Tunnel Drum videos.
Just looking at the datasheet for the bidirectional capsule(JLI 1660), I see that it has the internal FET, and the JLI 165 does not. I'm guessing that's why you are using it with the modified Schoeps circuit. Am I correct? Also in your opinion, would the 1660 be a good candidate for the P48 circuit?
Thanks!
@@bryanblack190 The 1660 will work with P48. Look at the frequency response graphs of it though. It has a lot of low end fall off.
You always seem too make the mic's that I have been thinking of lately haha. Not sure if it would work but I've often thought about using a strategically placed figure 8 with a long shotgun mic so you can have an track to pick fill on your sides when you want to and possibly use it to help minimize your rear lobe in post. Thoughts?
I assume that the Endora Breakout Cable works for this?
@@camerakungfu yes it does! Designed it that way
Your use of the word “phase” creates a disturbance in the force. Otherwise very cool!
Thanks! There are those who say polarity and those who say phase… 😊
@ but only one of them is correct. :)
@ lol you went there didn’t you! 🤣. Technically I am flipping the polarity. Although the control in Reaper and most mixers is labeled Phase. If there is no time delay, it is the same. But I get the phase shift due to time delay not being identical.
@@SoundSleuth I am going to play the nit-picker here. First, let's agree that just because a control is labelled one way does not mean that is the proper use of that term. There are multiple generations of players who misuse the terms "vibrato" and "tremolo" because Leo Fender switched them and never corrected that mistake.
But to the greater point, @Scodiddly is correct. Polarity is a description of a single sound source, phase describes a relationship between two or more sound sources. One source can never be in or out of phase in a standalone description of itself, that only exists as a state of relationship relative to another source. In the side capsule, you flip the duplicated channel's polarity in order to affect its phase relative to the original. Words have meanings.
Okay, rant over. Otherwise, super cool video. I think I might go get one of those kits!
@ Thanks! Vibrato and tremolo are very different 🤣. I think I’m going to go with “Invert” the signal and mix it in… then I stay away from phase and polarity. 👍🏻