![]() Upon hooking up the mics, one thing became immediately clear: "Alice" has a blazing output, far in excess of the other two mics but in spite of this, its self-noise is extremely low, far lower than the Oktava's. I decided to try it out alongside a couple of inexpensive home studio mainstays: the SM57 and an Oktava MC 012. ![]() "Alice" arrived in a little custom, fleece drawstring bag-a nice touch-with a sheet of instructions. The bugs had been ironed out, and the mic was called "Alice." I agreed to buy one, and a week later, the microphone landed on my doorstep. I half-seriously posted, "Make me one," and a month later, I got an email from Scott telling me he now had a few in stock. More importantly, Scott posted an MP3 of some acoustic guitar he recorded with the mic, and it sounded very promising. It's about the size of an SM57 but is housed in a length of copper tubing, and the capsule is protected and ventilated by a copper-colored screen. ![]() He included a photo of the prototype, and it looked fantastic. While trolling the ancient "DIY Mics" thread on the Tape Op forum, I came across a post from Scott Helmke (AKA Scodiddly) about a microphone he was working on based on the Transound TSB-165A cardioid electret capsule, a high-quality element that requires an external FET (and thus more design and construction work than cheaper capsules).
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