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Post by EmRR on May 16, 2020 12:23:55 GMT -6
It’s strange to me that a company would go to great lengths to recreate the look of vintage RCA mics and then use different magnets. In guitar world people often mention Alnico speakers and pickups having some built in compression. I wonder if that’s the case with ribbon mics. Anyone know what Coles are using? EVERYONE is gonna use stronger magnets, it makes S/N better. It's nothing to do with compression, it's purely voltage output from the mic, all of which is far too low to saturate anything.
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Post by jamiesego on May 16, 2020 14:23:49 GMT -6
It’s strange to me that a company would go to great lengths to recreate the look of vintage RCA mics and then use different magnets. In guitar world people often mention Alnico speakers and pickups having some built in compression. I wonder if that’s the case with ribbon mics. Anyone know what Coles are using? EVERYONE is gonna use stronger magnets, it makes S/N better. It's nothing to do with compression, it's purely voltage output from the mic, all of which is far too low to saturate anything. I understand the reason. It looks like according to google guitar pickups generally output a few hundred millivolts vs about 0.1 millivolts for a ribbon mic so maybe it's not a good comparison but pickup winders often describe changes in the feeling of dynamics and frequncy response based on just changing magnet types. I would have to do a lot of research to see how or if that makes a difference in a ribbon mic. I was mainly curious if magnet changes introduce a change in coercivity (or some type of hysteresis. I'm not sure if those are the correct terms when talking about the mic as a system versus just the magnetic properties or if that distinction matters). If it does it seems like that would affect transient response. It may not make a quantifiable difference I'm just not educated enough to know the answers.
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