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My accidental pick up discovery

Hey CBG'rs

I'm sure someone else has discovered this too. While cleaning out my garage I found a very old (Probably over 20 yrs) Realistic (Radio Shack) Dynamic Microphone you know the old ones for the cassette recorders with 2 plugs on the end One for mic and the other to start and pause your recordings.

Well I popped the head on the side of my work bench and POP! goes the top and there was this heavy Microphone head marked "Y34 6" Dunno what that means. I added a 1/4" Mono Phone jack eliminatng the On/Off switch and dropped it into my "BLACK WIDOW" CBG and WOW is that thing is loud! So, from now on when I need a PICK Up for a CBG I'll go to Radio Shack and get their $9.99 Dynamic Microphone and dissect the tip from it. I'm sure I could add Volume and Tone but for now full blast is good, The AMP has a volume knob already anyway

I attached a picture of the Mic Head Looks like I may need to drill a 1" Dia hole for it and hot glue it in place?!

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Permalink Reply by HENRY LOWMAN on July 3, 2010 at 6:39pm

Let's HEAR this thing at work! :-)

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Permalink Reply by Jerryrig240 on July 3, 2010 at 6:47pm

I used a old speaker on a diddley bow I made....it's works ok....it would work better for something hollow like a cbg...but it's kinda a proff of concept type of thing that just hangs on the wall....as far as pld phones go on microphones Bob Log has his cool helmet phone mic setup he uses and it's really raspy. I have a old cb mic I wired to a jack so it could be used as a mic, but does not sound that great....good find though, it's always the small things that you discover that make you grin from ear to ear.

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Permalink Reply by MZ-HANDYMAN on July 3, 2010 at 7:31pm

I'm a beginer, I'll get my Daughters boyfriend to do a quick video and i'll post it here. He actually had my CBG for the last 4 days. I just went and got it today to add the electrics to it. He'll have a blast with it now that we can HOOK IT UP!

HENRY LOWMAN said:

Let's HEAR this thing at work! :-)

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Permalink Reply by Outhouse Instruments on July 4, 2010 at 1:25am

Matt :)

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Permalink Reply by MZ-HANDYMAN on July 4, 2010 at 7:53am

HAPPY NOW?

Find more videos like this on Cigar Box Nation

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Permalink Reply by Outhouse Instruments on July 5, 2010 at 1:40pm

I'm all smiles! Sounds great!

lol

Matt

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Eric Marsalis on July 5, 2010 at 8:32pm

I also discovered the same thing this past week. I was playing around with a microphone build following after (Low-Fi Mike for Harpin' & Winin' by werner) and found the same thing. I am playing around with an 8 ohm .25 speaker (very low, but not bad for sound) trying to make it into a microphone by simply attaching some wires to a 1/4 inch jack then attaching it to an AMP. I would think the same application could work as a another type of pick-up. I will actually try this out in the near future.

Douglas

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Permalink Reply by Kalmario on July 6, 2010 at 1:30pm

i had forgotten about the headphone option it just might solve a issue i have with a pickup currently.

Cliff

p.s. good to see you washed your hands MZ!!