"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote


Before you send it off. A colleague tells me that this mic
has a spring through which the case is grounded.
Check that it is making good contact.


Done that, Iain and also trapped a bit of aluminium foil between the body
halves to ensure a bond, but it really is the switch - which means it is
likely be a coil on the board.

OK. Just a thought.



And much appreciated! :-)



Way too fiddly to be soldered with a heated shovel and will want dinky
little parts near impossible to get outside the pro repair circuit, I
suspect.

There's no rush to fix it (check your emails) and I can drop it into (or
post it to) a place in Letchworth, just down the road. It's
probably/almost certainly going to cost a wunnah or so to fix, which is
what I budgeted for when I bid on it knowing *full well* that it was
almost certainly going to have a real reason for someone getting rid!

If you mean Sound Technology, they are very good



Yes, that's them!



It will still be a reasonably-priced purchase even after repair.



Exactly. Apart from a one-off 'rogue' price of 499 GBP from these people:

http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/akg-solid-tube/1512


These things seem to cost over 700 quid, which means I can afford to have it
repaired and it will still be a bit of a bargain for what it will have cost
me. The sound quality is there - much better than the Chinese valve mic I
had here (for even more money) and which was also noisy!!



I thought that Harman were word-wide agents for AKG, so
try also: This may be old info.

HARMAN PRO UK
Cranbourne House,
Cranbourne Road,
Potters Bar
Herts, EN6 3JN
www.harmanprouk.com

Max Lindsay-Johnson
Phone: +44 1707 668041


Thank you for that - I did find them and looked at the website, but I
thought it looked a bit too slick and 'big time' for a little repair to a
****ty old eBay mic! Besides, I know where Sound Technology is and they
can't be too big - plus it's virtually on my doorstep! :-)