After doing Rick Chinn's Radio Shack PZM phantom mod I wanted to build something and boy, did I almost bite off more than I could chew.
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I decided to build two to amortize shipping costs and because it doesn't really take any longer to build two than one.
It took me a month which included shopping and waiting for parts to be delivered. I worked on it a little every day. The days I worked on it a lot were mostly because I'd made some stupid mistake or other.
Before I assemble the second I need to find shockmounts that will hold smooth 1.5" pipes in a blumlein without affecting the pattern. Does Gary th plant man's work for that?
Here is a quick demo, 24-bit wav, of what mine sounds like on acoustic.
http://download.yousendit.com/DED0A0081FBA97EA
I placed the microphone quickly, putting the guitar just inside the proximity effect, pointing at the fingerboard over the body. You can hear people and the computer.
At first I thought, why pay someone ten bucks for plans? Isn't that anti-internet or something? It was worth it. Rick answered a ton of questions for me. I was his problem client.
His instructions are breezy. There are definitely things that were way more difficult than I thought they would be. Think of it this way. Each page tells you how to build part of the mic and each part of the mic is equally difficult to build unless you've built something like it before. He devotes several pages to making, corrugating and mounting the ribbon, but to me building the ribbon truss out of acrylic, copper-plated PCB, screws and magnets was more difficult.
I had never used a hacksaw for its intended use, nor a Dremel at all. But the principle and design are so simple that it's really impossible not to make something that sounds good, provided you are tenacious.[/img]