beyer m500

[permanent hearing damage]

so mine is in need of a new ribbon and has been sitting on the shelf sometime because of it.

i'm getting enak to re-ribbon the thing but i'm kinda going back and forth on keeping it stock vs. getting the mod that they offer (77-dx, i think).

i used to use this on guitars all the time and liked it stock. how does the transformer mod effect the performance of this mic?

[ulriggribbons]

Clarence should be able to give you a feel for what the difference is.

Personally, I would use the stock transformer.

Regards

Jon

[joel hamilton]

Clarence should be able to give you a feel for what the difference is.

Personally, I would use the stock transformer.

Regards

Jon

Agreed. Its a really cool mic that you can count on. Why turn it into a variable?

[cgarges]

Agreed. Its a really cool mic that you can count on. Why turn it into a variable?

Amen.

I love the 77 and I love the 500. If I owned either one, I wouldn't sell it to buy the other. They're both really different mics and both extremely useful.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[tonewoods]

Agreed. Its a really cool mic that you can count on. Why turn it into a variable?

Amen.

I love the 77 and I love the 500. If I owned either one, I wouldn't sell it to buy the other. They're both really different mics and both extremely useful.

+1...

I have M500s with the 77 mod, stock old M500s, and quite a few of the limited edition M500s, and they are all wonderful microphones...

What is Beyer charging to re-ribbon a mic these days??

It was getting prohibitive 10 or so years ago, which drove me to try the mod.
But maybe things have evened out??

[ulriggribbons]

Beyer no longer services the M500( I have been reribboning them lately because of this ), they only do the M130,M160,M260 mics. (I just had this conversation with their service department)

Regards

Jon

[PublicMelody]

Would love to know how a new ribbon from enac changes the tone of the m500.

enac is right down the road from me.