{"id":24472,"date":"2012-06-01T23:25:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T06:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/1313\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2012-06-01T23:25:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T06:25:55","slug":"rode-nt2-rk-47-capsule-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24472","title":{"rendered":"R\u00d8DE NT2 RK-47 Capsule upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a RK-47 capsule from <a href=\"http:\/\/microphone-parts.com\/\">microphone-parts.com<\/a> &amp; decided to upgrade a beat-up ole NT2 that has collected dust. Great sounding capsule. I ran a quick comparison vs my Red R8. I set them up on equal sides of fender deluxe cone &amp; noodled down some keys.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Red-R8.wav\">Red R8.wav<\/a><br \/>\n<div class=\"wavesurfer-block wavesurfer-audio\"><div class=\"wavesurfer-player\" data-wave-color=\"#000000\" data-cursor-color=\"#dddddd\" data-progress-color=\"#ededed\" data-height=\"127\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Red-R8.wav\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-progress\"><progress class=\"wavesurfer-loading\" value=\"0\" max=\"100\"><\/progress><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-buttons_set\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-play\"><span>Play<\/span><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-stop\"><span>Stop<\/span><\/button><div class=\"wavesurfer-time\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-duration\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NT2-with-RK-47.wav\">NT2 with RK-47.wav<\/a><br \/>\n<div class=\"wavesurfer-block wavesurfer-audio\"><div class=\"wavesurfer-player\" data-wave-color=\"#000000\" data-cursor-color=\"#dddddd\" data-progress-color=\"#ededed\" data-height=\"127\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NT2-with-RK-47.wav\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-progress\"><progress class=\"wavesurfer-loading\" value=\"0\" max=\"100\"><\/progress><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-buttons_set\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-play\"><span>Play<\/span><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-stop\"><span>Stop<\/span><\/button><div class=\"wavesurfer-time\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-duration\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Error fetching Flickr photos: A feed could not be found at `https:\/\/api.flickr.com\/services\/feeds\/photos_public.gne?lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&id=28896247@N06&tags=rk-47&per_page=20`. This does not appear to be a valid RSS or Atom feed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a RK-47 capsule from microphone-parts.com &amp; decided to upgrade a beat-up ole NT2<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24472\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">R\u00d8DE NT2 RK-47 Capsule upgrade<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,295,294],"class_list":["post-24472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-microphone","tag-rk-47","tag-rode-nt2","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7318112882_6e81f5bcde_c.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24481,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24481","url_meta":{"origin":24472,"position":0},"title":"Modified MXL 990 (RK-12 + microphone-parts.com\/Jim Williams PCB redesign)","author":"Eric","date":"August 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Finished soldering up\/shooting photos of an exciting soon to be released mic mod from microphone-parts.com. 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