Photo courtesy of Villinus
June 25th, 2010 – Okay, now why didn’t I think of this before? Following yesterday’s post on hacking an SM57 for easy drum miking, comes another slap-on-the-forehead easy hack. I’m sure you’ve come across a broken set of headphones that sounded fine, but something broke like the strap, or a deteriorating foam ear cup.
Last fall, I wrote about how my set of reliable headphones were deteriorating badly. It turns out that finding a cup in the correct size is nigh impossible since my headphones aren’t exactly a well-known brand. Well Villinus from the DJ TechTools community has come up with a brilliant hack to fix a broken set of cans.
Using a set of earmuffs meant for the shooting range, Villinus took the drivers out of his old set of headphones and modded the sound-attenuating earmuffs to accept them. Not only does he save on new headphones when his old set sounded fine, using premium earmuffs means that the sound attenuation is excellent. This works out especially well for DJs. Good thing I kept my old set of headphones around, now I can get to fixing them!
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