Summary of Contents for Cascade Microphones FAT HEAD II
- Page 1 Cascade Microphones FAT HEAD II Active/Passive Ribbon Microphone Meticulously Designed And Assembled In The USA Manual And User Guide...
- Page 2 Passive Ribbon we have included an internal switch that will allow users that option by simply flicking a switch. In Passive Mode the microphone becomes essentially a FAT HEAD II with a Lundahl LL2913 transformer. This combination has received rave reviews over the years, and has found it itself equally at home in large recording studios as well as home studios all over the world.
- Page 3 General Information About Ribbon Microphones For those of you new to ribbon microphones welcome and to those of you that have used ribbon microphones in the past or present just think of this as a reminder. • Ribbon microphones are known for their very natural sound and gentle compression that they add to the audio signal.
- Page 4 General Operating Instructions It is very important the read and understand the instructions for operating this microphone. Failure to follow the instructions in this manual could lead to damage of your audio equipment and/or your microphone. Here A Few Basic Concepts Of Your New Active/Passive Microphone. • When operating this microphone in Active mode you will need to employ 48 volt phantom power.
- Page 5 Acoustic Guitar, Drum Overheads, String Sections, Choirs, Horn Sec- tions, and many more. As always feel free to experiment. • The FAT HEAD II Active/Passive is very phase coherent making it an ideal microphone for recording ensembles of any type in stereo.
- Page 6 Switching The Microphone To Passive Mode The design of this microphone started out as an Active FAT HEAD II rib- bon. While we were designing it we tested the Active Circuit with vari- ous gain stages in order to make this microphone as useful for as many applications as possible.
- Page 7 Operating In Passive Mode • Although your FAT HEAD II Active/Passive is phantom power safe we still recommend that you leave phantom power off when operat- ing the microphone in passive mode. • In Passive Mode you will need to increase the gain quite a bit on your preamp to get the same output signal that you had with the micro- phone in Active Mode.
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Page 8: Warranty Information
Cascade Microphones will either repair or replace the product at no charge. Buyer is responsible for return shipping charges if past the initial first 30 days of purchase.
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