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Can anyone fix my EV RE55?
Hi all...
I just sent in an RE55 to EV to have it repaired, and it came back with a note saying that they cannot repair the mic... Does anyone know of any other options for repair? The mic works, but it sounds like there's bacon frying in the background. An intermittant crackling... Thanks in advance... Bruce |
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I just sent in an RE55 to EV to have it repaired, and it came back with a note saying that they cannot repair the mic... Does anyone know of any other options for repair? The mic works, but it sounds like there's bacon frying in the background. An intermittant crackling... ** Have you tried turning off the phantom power ?? Hard to see how an dynamic can make noise with no power source. ........... Phil |
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Hi all... I just sent in an RE55 to EV to have it repaired, and it came back with a note saying that they cannot repair the mic... Does anyone know of any other options for repair? The mic works, but it sounds like there's bacon frying in the background. An intermittant crackling... Any tech can resolder the connections inside, which is a possible issue. BUT, that sort of thing can also be caused by an break in the coil wire, which is basically unrepairable. I don't know anybody who can repair damaged dynamic elements. It really shouldn't be all that difficult... you'd need some specialized winding jigs for various microphones and you'd need to get a supplier to make you some mylar diaphragms, but it doesn't seem like it would be THAT much worse than reconing speakers. But nobody is doing it. There are a huge number of 666 mikes out there with open coils too. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Thanks all for the input....
"Who did you send it to? Was it EV? " I sent it to Telex, who now does the authorized repairs on EV mics... It wasn't all that long ago that if you sent a mic to EV to have it repaired, it came back fixed, and they didn't charge for the service (!). It was too good to be true, and alas, those days are over... I *highly* recommend insisting on an estimate before having Telex undertake repairs on your mic, based on this recent experience. I sent in the RE55 and a 635a, and they fixed the 635a and charged 91 bucks plus shipping without informing me on what it would cost... Not exacly what I had in mind... Bruce |
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playon wrote:
I'm speaking out of ignorance here, but there are quite a few guys out there rewinding and making electric guitar pickups, couldn't that gear be modified to be used for repairing the coils? I dunno, I never saw a pickup rebuilt. It would seem like a much easier thing to do, though, at least if it's like making chokes and transformers. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 4/20/05 7:07 PM, in article , "Scott Dorsey"
wrote: playon wrote: I'm speaking out of ignorance here, but there are quite a few guys out there rewinding and making electric guitar pickups, couldn't that gear be modified to be used for repairing the coils? I dunno, I never saw a pickup rebuilt. It would seem like a much easier thing to do, though, at least if it's like making chokes and transformers. Same thing. You;re talking VERY do-able real-thin-wire-on-a-bobbin. And remember, in a pickup, NOTHING MOVES, Not so in a mic... I repositioned a ribbon once in a nothing-to-lose Rca Junior situation and it was cool, I'm still kinda goggle-eyed that you can rediaphragm a condensor mic outside of a micro-waldo-clean-room, recone a speaker pretty easy, and drop-in-diaphragms for compression drivers are normal field fixes as of +40yrs ago. The sheer tiny size, fragile former, glues and critical mass and flexibility that are so critical to a dynamic mic make me just get all crazy thinkin about it. |
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"SSJVCmag" The sheer tiny size, fragile former, glues and critical mass and flexibility that are so critical to a dynamic mic make me just get all crazy thinkin about it. ** I still have a small stock of AKG D19 diaphragms which are the ones used in the famous D12 "bass drum" mic. Theses were available for a couple of dollars each from AKG as replacements for the D12 since it used a screw down metal ring to hold the edge of the diaphragm in place. Fixed quite few broken D12s that way. The D19 diaphragm was also used in the D707 and D190 mics. ............. Phil |
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