IMac G4 Sunflower. Saved by Frank Marano. Imac G4 Online Computer Store Volleyball Designs Best Computer Desktop Computers Apple Products Technology Tray Meet. I don't have a picture of the power supply arrangement in a G4 iMac to offer, myself, but one of the pictures in this eBay item illustrates where the power lead feeds into the back of the iMac. Power Supply Units are not something it's wise to mess about with if you don't know exactly what you're doing and accessing the internals of a G4 iMac.
Back in early October, I bought my first-ever high-end microphone, which also happens to be my first tube mic, after a LOT of research.The Peluso P-12 is modeled after the classic AKG C-12 from the WWII era and was the standard vocal mic for many decades (still is, for some). I bought it for a heavy metal album I am producing (and playing on, since the bassist flubbed it). The singer is the best I have EVER worked with, on on a par with Ozzy Osbourne, so I really wanted to do his voice justice. Very dynamic, pitch-perfect, full of passion, almost operatic, but very natural and organic.
The P-12 is an amazing mic, and well worth the grand-and-a-half (more or less) that it costs. No sibilance whatsoever, or upper-mid harshness. I sold most of my condenser mics these past few weeks, except the ones used during drum tracking! I'm going to try it on acoustic guitar next.
This is the most balanced and natural mic I have ever used. Certainly it is a bit coloured, like any tube mic, but not in a way that radically alters the natural vocal timbre. It is warm, and also avoids low-end boom but is solid in the mid-range and the upper-lows as well as the lower-highs, so really is a perfect vocal mic -- for male vocals, at least (I do not currently know any local female vocalists who are interested in recording; most only want to gig, do their own thing, or moved away in recent years).
At any rate, in the context of classic C-12's and C-12 reissues, this one is a no-brainer cost-wise and can barely be distinguished from good examples of those mics in a shootout.
I plan to pick up a Peluso 2247 SE sometime early next year, to cover singers for whom the P-12 is not an ideal match, and maybe the P67 later on (especially for female vocalists). The 2247 SE is more or less a replica of the mic that ultimate morphed into the famous Neumann U87, but many (including myself) prefer the earlier non-solid-state versions (U47, U49, etc.).New Stuff Imac G4 21.5
CD tray does not open
I still use this old but beautiful iMAC for some software and to read small CD sizes that new MACs do not accept anymore (you need to place them on a tray). But the iMAC G4 CD tray refused to open.
A few years earlier we managed to repair the screen backlight years ago (mentioned in my book TOXIC CAPITALISM).
I needed to read a small size CD and realized the tray got stuck. There were some faint click-clacks but that was it.
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The solution
Out of desperation I poked around the tray, trying to pull it out, with the lid opened. Finally I pushed inside the white plastic (see pic 4), which “clicked”, see pic 5.
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Then with the keyboard I opened the tray that slides out.
Simple, works…