Members David E H Posted July 10, 2009 Members Share Posted July 10, 2009 I just picked up this old Turner Crystal 33X today: I haven't found too much info on the internet, but it seems that it's fairly old. Anyways, the cable that came with it was cut. I tried soldering a 1/4 mono jack to it, but I still can't get it to work. The other side of the cable has a really old styling of screw-in connector....like this: I guess my question now is what connector goes on the other end? Should it be XLR? Should I just replace the whole cable at this point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted July 10, 2009 Members Share Posted July 10, 2009 Its a CB/ Ham Radio mic. Won't be much for fidelity. Need to run it high impediance with possibly an attenuator if it has a high output. Might be neat on a guitar amp or some background vocals to get that megaphone telephone sound. Its always good to have a well stocked tool kit for recording. The midrange that thing puts out may fill a nitche some other mic is missing and the blend of an overdriven midrange mic blended with a full frequency mic may have a unique sound especially if it had effects on on of the two while the other is dry. They do make great harp mics and can drive a guitar amp into overdrive well like a green bullet does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members David E H Posted July 10, 2009 Author Members Share Posted July 10, 2009 Its a CB/ Ham Radio mic. Won't be much for fidelity. Need to run it high impediance with possibly an attenuator if it has a high output. Might be neat on a guitar amp or some background vocals to get that megaphone telephone sound. Its always good to have a well stocked tool kit for recording. The midrange that thing puts out may fill a nitche some other mic is missing and the blend of an overdriven midrange mic blended with a full frequency mic may have a unique sound especially if it had effects on on of the two while the other is dry. They do make great harp mics and can drive a guitar amp into overdrive well like a green bullet does. Right.....I'm not gonna use it multi-track a bunch of instruments, but like you said, it might be good for some vintagey/lo-fi type sounds.....or distorted back-up vocals. The question still remains....do I need XLR for it to work correctly? It doesn't need significant phantom powering, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members David E H Posted July 10, 2009 Author Members Share Posted July 10, 2009 Alright.....the problem remains inside.....I opened up the mic and found this: The transducer was totally unattached and the ground wire was broken off. So, I soldered it back on......and it still doesn't work....you can see in this next picture that it's in pretty terrible condition: So, I still think I'd like to hold onto it 'cause it looks really cool, but can I find a decent replacement part? I have a similar transducer that came out of a Silvertone reed organ which has that cool old distorted vocals sound, but I figure that I might be able to find something cooler to do with this. Are there any good/interesting microphone circuits that I could fit inside the capsule? edit: I found this I could use at the bottom of this page: http://www.surplussales.com/microphones-audio/MicroAudio-4.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted July 11, 2009 Members Share Posted July 11, 2009 High impediance, 1/4" like a guitar cord. You could use a canon connector if thats the only input you have and only use the hot side but the input on low z mic input will probibly be way too hot without a high to low impediance transformer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Booya Tribe Posted July 12, 2009 Members Share Posted July 12, 2009 Weird, I actually have the exact same mic. I bought it at a thrift store for like $5. We used it as one of two mics on the keyboard amp and recorded a whole album with it. It uses a high impedance 1/4" cable that connects to that weird screw on cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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