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Beta 58A Question

Postby Malcolm Boyce » Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:20 pm

So, I have a Beta 58A that has been intermittent. I have checked all I can see but I have a question.

I notice that early Beta 58 mics can be separated in two places easily by threading... One at the pop filter, and one at the "seam" part way down, the "A" version only seems to thread apart at the top, and the lower seam seems (no pun intended) to be only cosmetic to look like the earlier model.

True, or do I not know a secret?
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Re: Beta 58A Question

Postby macrae11 » Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:46 pm

Twist really, really, hard?
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Re: Beta 58A Question

Postby Malcolm Boyce » Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:47 pm

macrae11 wrote:Twist really, really, hard?

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Re: Beta 58A Question

Postby Alain Benoit » Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:32 pm

Malcolm Boyce wrote:
I notice that early Beta 58 mics can be separated in two places easily by threading... One at the pop filter, and one at the "seam" part way down, the "A" version only seems to thread apart at the top, and the lower seam seems (no pun intended) to be only cosmetic to look like the earlier model.

True, or do I not know a secret?


True.
I have both regular Betas and A's here and the same is true. The lower portion simply holds the hot glued in transformer.
As far as your intermittency I assume that you looked at your XLR solder joints and also where the transformer primary ties into the transducer?
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Re: Beta 58A Question

Postby Malcolm Boyce » Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:11 pm

Alain Benoit wrote:I assume that you looked at your XLR solder joints and also where the transformer primary ties into the transducer?

Everything I looked at seems OK, although I didn't touch an iron to anything. I basically just did a visual inspection so far.
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Re: Beta 58A Question

Postby Alain Benoit » Thu Jun 30, 2011 2:54 pm

Bring it in then, likely a fatal failure though.
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Re: Beta 58A Question

Postby Mathieu Benoit » Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:31 pm

Alain Benoit wrote:Bring it in then, likely a fatal failure though.

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