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Permalink Reply by frank tennyson on August 13, 2012 at 3:19pm

Hey not much traffic? Like the instructable! Could you have used a pizeo (spelling I know) in place of an element from an old mic? I'm really interested in building a mic once I get my build and know a condensor mic should work in theory. Eventually want to tackle a ribbon if I can find someone with experience to guide me through.

Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on August 20, 2012 at 3:22am

anyone have any good ideas usin an old rotary telephone element as the mic. Also can i use a phantom powered element as a harp mic and how would i wire that up....i`m just starting to get into making my own harp mic`s.

Permalink Reply by Flippin 9's (Scot C.) on August 20, 2012 at 4:12am

Hi Randy, Here's one I made awhile back. Its from a 1962 rotary southern bell phone.

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on August 20, 2012 at 5:19am

i just hook the 1/4 cable right to the reciever wires, or does need something else. I`m making the housing out of bone.

Permalink Reply by Flippin 9's (Scot C.) on August 21, 2012 at 3:31am

Hi Randy. I attached the 1/4" cable right to the element. You just have to figure out what lead is + or -. The hardest part was finding an old rotary phone that had a chrystal element, also I had to modify the mouth piece to accept the ear piece element as the housing. It sounds pretty sweet but I wished there was enough room for a volume pot.

Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on August 22, 2012 at 4:43am

I found an old rotary phone at the local thrift store...5 bucks...so guess i`m in business. Just have to find a good size piece of bone to use as my housing.

Permalink Reply by Flippin 9's (Scot C.) on August 21, 2012 at 3:40am

Ok... so I checked out the one on the instructables site, very cool. Looks like I got a new prodject for the weekend.

Permalink Reply by Flippin 9's (Scot C.) on August 23, 2012 at 2:01am

Cool... I look forward wait to seeing it.

Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on September 23, 2012 at 5:05am

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280969296322    just bought 2 of these cartridge style elements for my vocal mic idea. Didn`t want to spend big bucks on something like a Shure element in case this idea doesn`t pan out.