Just checking through ebay tonight and I found this mic...looks like a CB or Ham radio mic. Anyways the description says it a controlled magnetic element...but is this the same type of element that harp players favour so much?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shure-401B-Microphone-5-Pin-DIN-/140927197127?pt=UK_Music_Instruments_Microphones_MJ&hash=item20cfea5fc7 ---------- Oisin
Last Edited by Oisin on Mar 07, 2013 7:33 PM
If it is a high impedance model, yes. The PDF specifies the replacement element as an R5D and that is indeed a Shure CM. Very often these mics are the cheapest way to find good CM's. You just have to know which ones have the elements you want.
You're right JD - the 401B is the low-Z model. It is in the PDF that Ryan posted as well.
@Oisin - that means it is less desirable - but you can often mount an internal impedance matching transformer in a shell between an element like this and the connector - resulting in a high impedance mic. There is very, very little loss of tone this way. Don't give up on that element if the price is right for you. ---------- /Greg
