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Hot Doggin’ Dom
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May 28, 2019
5:25 AM
Hello All. This is my first post on MBH. I'm a 36 year old drummer from London who also loves playing blues harmonica.

I've recently become mildly obsessed with finding the right mic. I've now got far too many and have kind of settled on a lovely old Sonotone Voice of music mic with a ceramic element.

I'm currently working on an album with some friends that requires a little more country flavour than i'm used to. I've been practising the major pentatonic scale and listening to Micky Raphael a hell of a lot. I'd like to add a switchcraft connector to the mic (like the ones you get on a bulletini) so i can add a Blows me away vintage volume control to it. Reason being that i want be able to play the mic in a stand, uncupped, so i can do hand wahs/vibrato and then pick it up and cup it for solos. A volume control would be extremely handy for this.

Does anyone know which Switchcraft part i need? I've got a couple of Switchcraft 2501M vintage mic connectors in the post but i don't know if these are the right ones for the job? Or perhaps i'm better off installing a 1/4 jack in the mic instead?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Over and out,

Dom
Bilzharp
186 posts
May 28, 2019
2:23 PM
I love those old Sonotone "ice cream cone" mics as well. Not that great for installing a volume pot though. Adding the Blowsmeaway volume control is the best approach, I think. I think a Switchcraft 2501MP (for panel mount) would make a cleaner installation. I just tried it with a shell I had sitting around and the 3/8"-32 thread screwed right into the cord hole at the end of the Sonotone! You'd want to drill for a setscrew in the side to stake it in place and keep it from unscrewing.


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