{"id":24496,"date":"2013-06-25T13:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/1313\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2013-06-25T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T20:54:15","slug":"4688-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24496","title":{"rendered":"Modded 990 Room Mics\/New tracking rig experiment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently put together a few MXL 990 mod kits for\u00a0<a title=\"microphone-parts.com\" href=\"http:\/\/microphone-parts.com\/\">microphone-parts.com<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been curious to try them out \u00a0as room mics, this is the result.<!--more--><\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tFr_HadBSSU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently put together a few MXL 990 mod kits for\u00a0microphone-parts.com. I&#8217;ve been curious to try<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24496\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Modded 990 Room Mics\/New tracking rig experiment.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24497,"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":[5,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-videos","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/modded-990-room-mics-new-trackin.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24455,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24455","url_meta":{"origin":24496,"position":0},"title":"Room Mic Comparison","author":"Eric","date":"January 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Late night tracking session for upcoming compilation, Set up three different stereo room fill mics. 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