what battery for tie-clip mic?

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April 20, 2001 - 20:54

NNSW

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I've got a tie-clip mic form Jessops - a TMM1000. And I've lost the info which says which battery to get. I took it into Jessops and they had no idea!

I am going to be filming some presentations with the cam at some distance. I've also got a cheap old mixer, a Realistic 'disco' mixer,
with two mic channels. It works well enough if the output is a tape recorder but when I output to the mic socket of a camcorder (using a PV Low Z mic) the sound is unacceptably distorted.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

April 20, 2001 - 21:57

Mad_mardy

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the output of the mixer is at line level
mic input of the cam is beleive it or not mic level,you need a mixer that outputs a mic level signal,not sure but you might be able to get something to do a conversion but its gonna pick up a lot of noise

the batt you want is a LR44 (little round watch battery type thing)

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April 21, 2001 - 16:04

NNSW

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Thanks for that. I've got the battery and it's fine.

Thanks also for the info on mixers. I didn't realise there was a distinction between 'line' level and 'mic' level.