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Wow, cool - thanks! What we're looking for is the offset developed by the microphone when phantom is applied through the customary 6K81 pull-ups. It cannot be loaded by a transformer but an active input, or just the pullup resistors as load, will tell us how symmetric the current draw is. The DC pot...

Thanks. Looks like the 4050s may be the ones which are not transformer output.

Pair of 4050s
0.2mV/0.7mV

The Vos is <<1 mV. Not a smoking gun. Anyone else want to measure some phantom-powered mics?

Anybody got a TLM103?

I just wanted to thank everyone who has ordered boards recently!

Wayne

Thanks Roger. Hardly a smoking gun.

You might check to see what the DC resistance is across pins 2 and 3. That should tell us if there's a transformer there.

Roger - I haven't had a chance to re-explore the Murata modules.

I don't know for certain that AT3525 is transformer out, but the DCR was ~20 Ohms. I think I may have written 10 Ohms in the earlier post.

See what offset your 4050s have when you get the chance.

Wayne

Wayne, do you have access to a copy of Attack and Release Time Constants in RMS-Based Compressors and Limiters, by Fred Floru?

Crusty - Just saw this. Check your-email.

I found the 1/f component to be quite high in a number of caps I tested even with the input terminated in 150R and Rbias at 1k. These samples were Panasonic SU-series so as you often say YMMV. For new never-before-powered caps it took them 30 minutes or more to get "quiet." I did find the ...

John - Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I think the comment made was for a topology that didn't provide correction of differential offsets from mic-induced errors. I saw that problem from the get-go and the posts here deal with that issue in great detail. I wrote early on: 7) Because DC ...

Thanks Paul! Yes, they're in. Note that postage is going up Mother's Day and all rate bets are off. I hope to have an early BOM posted here soon and there are those schematics to get drawn for Roger to tidy up. Here's the link: http://www.ka-electronics.com/kaelectronics/MS_Matrix/MS_Matrix.htm Rath...

Have you looked at this one? No input or Cgain caps. http://www.picocompressorforum.com/forum/php/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14 I would do the offset servo differently now and change a couple of things but it's passed the proof-of-concept stage and works. Roger sent me some AT3525s to try with it. The ...