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Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec "banana" mic upgrade?

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec "banana" mic upgrade?
From: "Charles Delaune" <chas118@cableone.net>
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:45:35 -0500
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I wonder how well the old 444 would sound on an Orion II? What was the
impedance on the Shure?

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Subject:        Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec "banana" mic upgrade?

Ten-Tec made banana mics with both ceremic and electret elements. The
ceramic mics were
ElectoVoice with the Ten-Tec brand on them. (Ten-Tec founder Al Kahn also
founded ElectroVoice.)
The ceremic version was originally designed for the Argonauts and Tritons.
They had the 3-conductor
phone plugs. The electret version had a four-pin plug and was designed to be
used with an outboard
speech processor that Ten-Tec also made as an accessory to the Tritons. I
once had the processor. It
was black color and matched the Argonaut 515.

The banana ceramic mics never seemed to work that well with my Argonauts and
Tritons. I used the
Shure 444 which had much more "punch."

73, Winston  K4CWQ



> From: "Denton" <denton@oregontrail.net>
> Date: 2006/10/16 Mon PM 03:49:15 EDT
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: [TenTec] Ten Tec "banana" mic upgrade?
>
> Hi all...
> I recently was given one of those old TT banana mics, and I believe they
> have a crystal element in them.
> I am thinking of replacing the element with either a dynamic or a
condenser
> mic...
> Has anyone done this before? thanks
>
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