<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Yes, at the 40db setting, it still drives too high. Maybe I should just put a pot on the output and see how that goes.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"greg atcheson" <greg.atcheson@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Justin Slootsky" <justin@slootsky.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"lab" <lab@artengine.ca><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, May 6, 2014 9:46:27 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lab] "listening" to high volume using an electret microphone<br><div><br></div><p dir="ltr">Have you tried using the other lower-gain setting jumpers mentioned in the link? If it was a standard opamp I'd say put a potentiometer in for the gain and you can adjust it.</p><div class="gmail_quote">On May 6, 2014 8:10 AM, "Justin" <<a href="mailto:justin@slootsky.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:justin@slootsky.org">justin@slootsky.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm working on a "light organ" type project, and I tried this <a href="http://adafru.it/1713" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://adafru.it/1713">http://adafru.it/1713</a> and it worked great until I got to high home stereo volume, then everything was maxed out. Since my target environment is an indoor concert venue, I need to use something with less amplification.<br> I have a bare electret microphone, but I'm having trouble finding information on how to use it in a high volume environment.<br> Does anyone have any links or suggestions?<br> <br> <br> ______________________________<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>_________________<br> Lab mailing list<br> 1. subscribe <a href="http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab">http://artengine.ca/mailman/<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>listinfo/lab</a><br> 2. then email <a href="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca">Lab@artengine.ca</a> to send your message to the list<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>