And after a particularly bad environmental experience, one of them will
take an
expensive German vacation..

John

William Sarokin wrote:


Courtney mentioned that the cause of the humidity interference is
dampness
on the mic capsule. It's a reasonable explanation, but it's not
accurate.
If it were so it would apply to every condenser mic every time it got
damp.
Maybe John and I (and many others I know) are extremely lucky or have
magical sets of Schoeps.

I surrender :)

btw, any users of the Schoeps non-modular systems out there? The CCM's?
Since they don't have interchangeable heads, how are they performing in
harsh conditions (include harsh rf?). Just curious. I haven't worked
with
them.

I use CCM's and I have not encountered any humidity problems over the years
even in harsh environments. I have, however, suffered from serious RF
problems lately. Especially working in and around the microsoft campus,
their is an ever increasing amount of wireless data flying around everywhere
and I can hear it in every one of my condenser mics except a 416. I wonder
if the schoeps RF immunity mod will be an option for the CCM's.

I use CCM's and I have not encountered any humidity problems over the
years
even in harsh environments. I have, however, suffered from serious RF
problems lately.

Well, for every Schoeps user that claims they have never had any problems
with their mic's in humid conditions you can find another user that has had

to switch to Sennheisers when their favorite Schoeps went south in the
jungle. Like I said, not all capsules are vulnerable, it depends on the
gap, the age of the diaphragm and the humidity. But the Sennheiser RF
condensers never seem to have a problem in high humidity situations. That
is because they work on a completely different principal than the Standard
Condenser mic (Sennheiser's MKH series use RF FM Modulation using the
capsule's varying capacitance to modulate an RF carrier). They were
designed to eliminate the problems of lowered impedance between the
Diaphragm and the backplane because of high humidity. See Hugh Robjohns'
"Brief History of the Microphone" at
http://www.rycote.com/products/pdf/A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Microphones.pdf
for a more complete explination.

And I firmly believe that it is not the capsule contacts that cause the
problem in high humidity. In fact when my MK41 or MK5 contacts are acting
up I unscrew them and breathe on them to allow moisture to condense and
improve their conductivity. This clears up the problem for a while till they
dry out.

and John, congratulations on your "Magic Set of Six". you are a lucky devil.

"Nick" <none@none.com> wrote in message
I use CCM's and I have not encountered any humidity problems over the
years
even in harsh environments. I have, however, suffered from serious RF
problems lately.

I contacted Schoeps about your question and received this response:

Dear Mr. Sarokin,

regarding RF sensitivity the CCM series lies in between the former CMC6
series and the actual series that has started delivery from first of May
on.
So the need for an emprovement is not such as with the CMC6.
We will devellop the next version of the CCM series as well but we can not
tell yet when this will take place.

With best wishes

Bernhard Vollmer
SCHOEPS GmbH

---------------------------------------------

Hi Mr Vollmer,
There have been a few queries on RAMPS about the CCM series. Will the
same
'fix' be applied to those microphones?
Billy Sarokin

"Nick" <none@none.com> wrote in message
I use CCM's and I have not encountered any humidity problems over the
years
even in harsh environments. I have, however, suffered from serious RF
problems lately.

I contacted Schoeps about your question and received this response:

Dear Mr. Sarokin,

regarding RF sensitivity the CCM series lies in between the former CMC6
series and the actual series that has started delivery from first of May
on.
So the need for an emprovement is not such as with the CMC6.
We will devellop the next version of the CCM series as well but we can not
tell yet when this will take place.

With best wishes

Bernhard Vollmer
SCHOEPS GmbH

Did you get any information about having existing CMC6 amps modified to
meet
the new RFI specs of the new amps?

"Charles Tomaras" <tomaras@tomaras.com> > Billy,

Did you get any information about having existing CMC6 amps modified to
meet
the new RFI specs of the new amps?

Hi Charles,

Not yet. Schoeps has come out with a new CMC6 which should be available
now, but they didn't have any info yet on modifying existing amps. As soon
as I hear something I'll let you know.
Billy

I can ask the Schoeps people at the AES convention today...

"William Sarokin" <bigmaho@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<H9znc.40439$wY.40278@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
"Charles Tomaras" <tomaras@tomaras.com> > Billy,

Did you get any information about having existing CMC6 amps modified to
meet
the new RFI specs of the new amps?

Hi Charles,

Not yet. Schoeps has come out with a new CMC6 which should be available
now, but they didn't have any info yet on modifying existing amps. As soon
as I hear something I'll let you know.
Billy

the people at the Schoeps booth told me that *all* new CMC-6 are
extremely RF-tight. You can ID them by the gold plated bottom when you
look at the XLR connector. They could do a modification for old CMC-6
modules but with a possible high pricetag because they have to replace
the whole electronics. Also the RF-proofing has only be done to the
CMC-6.

frank.

considering it's a fix for their own engineering failings and they aren't
even changing the model number.