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How do I connect the receiver from an old telephone handset to a 3.5 mm jack?
I want to be able to use it as a microphone for my laptop. I fiddled with the wires Microphone Receiver and for a while I was able to use it to record my voice on the computer, but very faintly and with a loud buzzing noise. I thought soldering the wires in place would clear up the sound, but now I can't get anything. How can I make this work? It's a fairly old phone, I got it at the Salvation Army a few days ago.
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To use protools you need to have some of digidesign’s hardware be it an M-Box, 002/003 etc. So you should be able to to use that, but if you are recording this to be mixed somewhere else using protools then you will need to run your audio through an Analog to Digital converter there are many different brands that you can get a hold of. The Apogee Rosetta 200 or 800 is a great starting point, but if you intend to use protools there is no other way in other then using some of their hardware. You could also use the A to D converter in your computer just by plugging into the line input, but be warned it is not the best quality. Standard rule Good Musician + Good Mic + Good Placement + Good Preamp + Good Converter = Good Sound.Take a look:http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/rosetta-series.php
Yes. Because tthe pickups on an elecrtric guitar are really a form of microphones, but be careful(especially in not turning up fthe volume too high) because fthe circuits in fhe receiver are optimized for voice microphones and either may not be able to handle guitar pickups or may amplify fthem so loud fthat it blows your speakers or fthe receiver itself. My first practice bass amp that I built myself used an old stereo receiver and a 12-inch speaker. I blew it at a wedding gig, borowed somebody elses bass amp with a too -small speaker and blew it also. I felt prety bad after fthat wedding, but my next bass amp was a Sun 200S with two 15-inch JBL speakers and that monster’s never blown even fthough I’ve played all sorts of gigs with it and most very loud. There are lots of websites in the Messages and Links in my Yahoo! group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bookdoctorsandeditors and I’ll answer music questions fthere so please join and bring your friends. I wrote an article on playing guitar and bass and enjoy music questions. I also studied Music in college and have played bass guitar and sax in bands all my life. I really enjoy misic questions so …Good question, friend, and thank you very much,JB
There are two possibilities – the wireless beltpack may have a problem or the receiver has a problem. My first guess would be that the mic cable on the beltpack has gone bad – that is the usual problem with these things because that mic cable gets moved around and abused alot. You may be able to order a new mic cable assembly from Trantec.http://www.trantec.co.uk/html/p_Spares_Repairs.htm
use a mixer like the one posted above, but add any standard UHF mic and receiver. you will need a XLr cable and a set of good audio cables to patch to the receiver.
Go to your local radio shack…you will want something called a mixer. There will be RCA inputs and outputs along with the 1/4 inch microphone inputs on the back. You will plug the mic(s) into their own channels and your other source (cd/dvd player) into another channel. There will be sliders that will let you control the volume of each source. Should be less than $50…enjoy!
I use Same Day Music. They don’t charge tax, and you can get a Sure SM58 for $99
What is the mic connected to? Every mic needs to be connected to a MIXER and AMP and SPEAKERS. You need a sound system to get sound out of a mic.
No, headphones is out put, a mic needs a input.. Put your mic in the input of your computer and come out of it into you input of your receiver.
yeah, mono 1/4″ into the A/V. but it will only be the Mono 1/4″ into the red and white, because those represent the left and right channels of an audio device. i have on, they are like Radio-Shack status if you want to go buy one.
If you have the proper equipment and knowledge it’s definitely better to do it on your own. These days the cost of the equipment isn’t overly expensive with the exception of the microphone. A good one is about $600 ~ $700. http://www.earthworksaudio.com/our-microphones/m-series/m30/ The measurement software can be downloaded for free. http://www.fesb.hr/~mateljan/arta/Without a lot of knowledge and experience to use the above equipment you are probably better off using the auto room correction with your receiver. Also, you need a means of external equalization to do it manually since your receiver or processor will not allow you access to manipulate its transfer function. This means you can not use a receiver unless you are using it as a preamp only as there must be EQ equipment connected between the preamp and power amplifiers. Unless you have this equipment, you can’t do it on your own, having a measurement system or not. Your only choice is to use the built in system.Edit: If you are just talking about setting speaker levels and your receiver’s automated calibration does not do room EQ then all you need is an SPL meter from Radio Shack. I would first balance it all with the SPL meter and then over some time listening, fine tune it by ear as Robert suggest. Room EQ however is important to eliminate room induced peaks in the bass response. The better automated calibration systems do this… although maybe not very well. My experience with Anthem’s “ARC” really turned me away from them. However, it’s still far better than having no room EQ. Hopefully your receiver does have this capability. It seems like a lot of wasted effort in the receiver to have the microphone and adjustment capability to do nothing more than level and speaker distance. That just seems like a total waste. mk
Yes there is – they make them for video cameras:http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/68061-REG/Audio_Technica_W88_68_830_Pro_88W_Camera.html
Microphones generally have quite low output (check specs on your mike), so you probably need a microphone preamplifier. See the link for one such preamp … but you can probably find one locally.You would connect the mike to the preamp input and the preamp output to the aux input on the 6.1 receiver.
You cannot plug a microphone directly into your tv.You need a special unit designed for karaoke or a seperate stereo unit with mic inputs.
You can get a splitter (”Y-adapter”) to split the phones output so you can hear it.
You need to contact the manufacturer and get a new set of CRYSTALS then put one in th MIC And one in the RECEIVER and you will have changed the frequencies…. Or you can buy a NEW MODERN DIGITAL ONE and then you chose thefrequencyy.
a telephone receiver is the name for the “speaker” part of the handset. it uses a coil of wire and a PM. the coil is not shielded and is very susceptible to any magnetic field, which is the cause of the buzz. a dynamic mic has the same problem and they can’t be used near computers either. a telephone transmitter is the name for the mic part of the handset, that is made of carbon granules that change bulk resistance when a voltage is applied. the telephone mic requires DC current to operate and the output will be quite strong, it should go to the computer line input and not the mic input. 6 volts should be adequate for the mic to work, and a cabon mic is not sensitive to magnetic fields. you will need to isolate the DC voltage from the output with a capacitor.
I have absolutely never heard of running xlr cables through an external resistive circuit but I’ll give this issue a shot. Maybe the wireless microphones have receivers that have a much lower internal resistance and they needed an external resistive setup in series with the receiver to raise its net resistance so there wasn’t too much current in the cable. Maybe more current is bad for sound quality or something. Once again, I have never heard of this before but most likely they are trying to raise the resistivity of the network maybe after having some trouble with the amp not being able to function correctly over time with the receiver due to current spikes (?). If its only resistors than thats probably whats going on. If you see a capacitor somewhere in there, then its most likely a high pass filter. Maybe they’re trying to eliminate the low noise hum from ever reaching the amp by using a filter. This could definitely mess with the output levels depending on the transfer function of the system.The setup could have effected the wireless mics for two reasons one of which I already mentioned. The resistance of the receiver may be competely different than the impedance of a microphone by itself. If the resistance of the receiver is much lower than the impedance of a regular wired up mic than when both are connected to identical circuits, the receiver will lose a lot of its output and the mic wont. You could also be dealing with two completely different setups of resistors.There are MANY potential reasons why you would connect something like a mic to a circuit of resistors but from a practical point of view, it makes no sense do all of this if you are just using the microphone for basic sound reproduction in a live setting. This is very weird and very impractical and I really dont understand why its necessary at all but if someone went out of their way to hook this network up, there must be a reason for it. I’m sorry i couldnt help more
If you are getting sound thru the EQ, doesnt that mean the mic is working? Is it more a problem of your amp for that channel not putting out any sound?
The key fob transmitter sends a unique signal for each button press. The receiver then decodes the signals into separate commands. If you’re lucky, the commands are discrete (separate wire) signals so you merely have to identify which receiver 12V output goes with each transmitter button.However, most modern automotive systems rely heavily on serial buses to save wiring cost and weight. So you may need to find the serial bus output, terminate it with the proper transceiver chip, then capture and decode the serial commands to create the signals to control your devices.
I just looked at the e-bay ad and I would not recommend this microphone. In the US it would cost $8. It is most probably junk. If you want a good microphone that will really sound pretty good, you will need to spend 25 pounds or more (at least $50) and even that is a very cheap mic.Here is a good one for the computer:http://www.zzounds.com/item–SAMC01UThese must be available in the UK too.