Popculture Chameleon
169 posts
Sep 08, 2016
3:54 PM
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I saw madcat ruth's custom mic on his you tube video about his pedal board and was wondering where I could have the same thing done only to the mad dog mic and not the original mad cat does anyone have any ideas- he had it customized to where the cord had been pulled out of the mic itself and a plug connector had been put there in his place for a wireless pedal reciever
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Kingley
4046 posts
Sep 08, 2016
10:10 PM
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Greg Heumann is the most obvious choice to approach for this job. If he can't do it, then it most likely can't be done.
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Killa_Hertz
1737 posts
Sep 09, 2016
8:58 AM
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Pop. I have a MadCat. Im not exactly thrilled with it. I wanted to take out the element and fit in a cartrige from an Akai DM6 or DM8 (i forget which) Its very small and has the element and HiZ Xfmr in a pretty small package. It'll take some doing, but I'm thinking It can be done.
It's a shame because its a really cool shell. Its just the element stinks and the chord is a Pain In The Butt.
I havent ever had a Mad Dog in my hands, but I think it should be pretty easy. Provided there is room.
I'm not sure what type of connector you have in mind. I'm assuming XLR?
I dont think you will be able to fit the connector internally, but externally should be no problem.
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Popculture Chameleon
170 posts
Sep 09, 2016
9:28 AM
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Killa- no not an xlr at least I don't think so Im interested in just a straight Jack input. for an ag1 transmitter that will be hooked up to a ap1 Samsung pedal. the same kind of wireless pedal Madcat uses. thought it would be perfect for the kind of pedal board Im trying to flesh out.
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Bugfan
51 posts
Sep 09, 2016
7:11 PM
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I had a mad dog and I changed it to a crystal element I bought from the UK. It was better but neither as crunchy or as overdriven as a shure or astatic cm/Cr element..... Probably because it is a lot smaller diameter...I have l put a 1/4" jack in a bullet for that same wireless unit.... There about the same lack of room in a mad dog.You can't use a std jack of any design. What you do is get an inline 1/? " connecter that the sleeve screws off. Look for as short as possible...I found one that was encased in a metal sleeve . You then pre wire it... Drill the mic just smaller than the thread of the connector and screw the whole thing in
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Greg Heumann
3275 posts
Sep 10, 2016
9:10 PM
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Before you spend a bunch of money on that mic - are you really happy with its tone? Have you honestly compared it to other possible solutions?
I had a dyed-in-the-wool Shaker customer come by my booth at SPAH. He was curious about the Bulletini. So I asked him if he had his Shaker mic with him. He had it in his room - came back the next day with it and A/B'd it with the Bulletini. He was blown away and bought one on the spot. Honestly, it could have been a nice reworked JT30 form Dennis Gruenling, a Bullet from James at simplemics.com. a Turner chop from Johnny Ace... or a number of other custom harp mics. From what I've heard, ANY of them would leave the Shaker mic in the dust.
I'm just saying - before you spend money modifying that mic, you owe it to yourself to try to find some other harp players in your area who might have other mics to compare it to.
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didjcripey
1060 posts
Sep 11, 2016
2:05 AM
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True that. I got one early on and even before I knew what a good mic sounded like I was underwhelmed... tinny and metallic comes to mind.
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