PAiA mid-side mic kit

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:18 am

I just ordered one of these--I guess to let PAiA know I want 'em to stay in business despite Simonton's death! I didn't bother with the casing, which looks really ugly to me...and I'm hoping to make a cool DIY body for it.

Anyway while looking around at Home Despot I found a bunch of intriguing possibilities...copper pipe, brass pipe, this crazy-looking conical pipe footing I might try as a mesh screen...

Any DIY mic body tips/ideas?

ulriggribbons · Post by **ulriggribbons** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:45 am

most of my mic body machining has been from 2" brass pipe. copper can be somewhat soft to work with, but will also work.

Here's how I approached a tube mic body. Working out the capsule mounting was the hardest part.

http://www.shinybox.com/product_info.php?products_id=41

Regards

ju

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:04 pm

How d'you get the nice dome effect on the mesh on top?

samjm · Post by **samjm** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:06 pm

i just ordered the gator pedal and a fatman But email replies have been few and far between after they told me the motion sickness one was out of stock, and the pedal cases were too. the guy said they wouldn't have the cases for months, i got the sense that there wasn't much interest in the sale...

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:18 pm

I suspect that's due to the illness and death of their main dude. We'll see if I get my mic kit, they might well be too bummed out to do much of anything for a while.

ulriggribbons · Post by **ulriggribbons** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:57 pm

inverseroom wrote:How d'you get the nice dome effect on the mesh on top?

That's just worked by hand and then soldered to the mic body at the top.

I used a dremel tool with a cutoff wheel to do the "windows" in the tubing.

Regards

ju

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:22 pm

fum wrote:
inverseroom wrote:How d'you get the nice dome effect on the mesh on top?
That's just worked by hand and then soldered to the mic body at the top.

I used a dremel tool with a cutoff wheel to do the "windows" in the tubing.

Regards

ju

Wonderful! I will likely try the same thing.

BTW what's your source for mesh? Can you get nice stuff at hardware stores?

ulriggribbons · Post by **ulriggribbons** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:42 pm

inverseroom wrote:
Wonderful! I will likely try the same thing.

BTW what's your source for mesh? Can you get nice stuff at hardware stores?

www.mcmaster.com

search on brass cloth

they also have the brass tubing and end caps

Regards

ju

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:41 am

fum wrote:
inverseroom wrote:
Wonderful! I will likely try the same thing.

BTW what's your source for mesh? Can you get nice stuff at hardware stores?
www.mcmaster.com

search on brass cloth

they also have the brass tubing and end caps

Regards

ju

Ahhhh, excellent, thank you!

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