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MICROPHONE sa HYDROPHONE sa MICROPHONE ACCESSORIES sa MICROPHONE PREAMPLIFIER sa WIRELESS MICROPHONE x MIKE xx AUDIO EQUIPMENT xx AUDIO RECORDING xx ELECTRONICS xx TRANSDUCER Microphone selection and placement for better recordings. Tips on recording piano music, organ music and choral groups. The listening machines. Everything you ever wanted to know about microphones. Part 1. The listening machines. Everything you ever wanted to know about microphones. Part 2. Report on assembling the model 814K electret microphone kit from Electronic Enterprises. Coincident microphone technique. Crossing two cardioids for cleaner imaging. Location recording basics. How to make a good tape recording of a live performance. Suggestions on microphones and their placement, recorders and tape. A primer on intensity stereo. A brief historical and technical review on coincident microphone stereo recording vs. spaced-microphone recording techniques. Microphoning. A discussion of mike placement for conventional playback over speakers. Microphones for measuring a loudspeaker's response. Includes an equalized preamp circuit for the Sony ECM-170. Phased array recording. A professional recording engineer explains alternatives to the coincident figure-of-eight microphone arrangement espoused by Alan Blumlein (circa 1931). Tip on making boundary zone microphones. Make inexpensive instrumentation microphones using the Panasonic P9932 electret mike. Tips on two-microphone patterns to use when recording using the "MS" or Blumlein method. Microphones for video cameras. How to make low-cost electret capsule mikes and attach them to a video camera for professional quality sound. Build your own low-cost boom mike which attaches to a headset. Utilizes an electret element. Est. cost: $5. How to build a desktop electret microphone. Diagrams and pin number assignments of 27 transceiver and radio microphone connectors. Micro-sized amplifier built using surface-mount technology. Est. cost: $20. Use the amp for both a (1) Big-Ear parabolic-reflector microphone and a (2) super-snooper which is built into a headphone-style radio headset. A novel super-directional horn microphone that outperforms many costly commercial designs. Used to capture and listen to sounds at a distance. Consists of a corrugated cardboard horn attached to an ordinary hand-held microphone. Build a binaural mikeset (two microphones positioned to simulate a pair of human ears). The microphones are built into either a styrofoam wig stand or a miniature stereo headset case. Big Ear picks up far off audio. Make a simple carbon mike. Mike and preamp in one hand-held case. Add a push-to-talk microphone to an old CB mobile rig. Microphone basics. Looks at efficiency, types, acoustical characteristics, etc. A microphone primer. Selection and placement of mikes to capture a live performance. Build a parabolic microphone. An 18" diameter reflector will add about 10 dB gain to a microphone. Surplus radar antenna dishes are used for the parabolic dish. The country boy's capacitor microphone. Plans for constructing a tube-based capacitor microphone around a Primo CM 23B omnidirectional sound measurement capsule. Est. cost: $100-$200. Build a binaural mikeset to make true, lifelike "stereo" recordings. Build the "Tube", a super-sensitive, long-range listening device that uses a 42" piece of 4"-diameter PVC sewer pipe as the sound-directing and gathering instrument. Est. cost: $40. All about microphones. Covers resistive, crystal, dynamic, velocity, condenser, and electrostatic microphones. Microphone which can be varied from unidirectional pattern to cardoid pattern. Unit uses photoflood reflector as a lens to focus sound on microphone. A primer on microphones used with sound movie cameras. Selecting and using microphones when making sound movies. Tips on selecting microphones and controlling acoustics in motion picture sound recording. Putting the audio into audiovisual. Training your ears to be sound-critical. Tips on using microphones and loudspeakers. Tubular microphone amplifies distant sounds. Circuit allows the use of a loudspeaker as a microphone in an intercom circuit. Microphones for CB'ers and hams. How they work and which ones to choose. What to look for in selecting a good mike for hi-fi recording. Proper technique for talking into a CB microphone. Tips on placement of microphones for recording musical instruments. Build an antique Hughes-type microphone. Experiments in converting sonic vibrations into electrical impulses and then back again to sound. Using a parabolic reflector to pickup distant or faint sounds. Est. cost: $50. Special microphone incorporates an audio compressor and VOX circuit. It will turn on your recorder at the sound of a voice and keep the recording level automatically adjusted. All about microphones. How the operate and how to select the one that's best for your job. Micro-sized amplifier can be built using either SMD (surface-mount devices) or conventional components. SMD version fits on PC board under 1"x1". Use it for both a home-brewed "Big-Ear" type microphone and a super snooper. Est. cost: $20. Super-directional horn-style microphone that outperforms many costly commercial designs. The horn is made from corrugated cardboard. Converting the old style "candlestick" desk telephone to a unique microphone. Directional microphone for recording bird songs and insect noises on a battery-powered tape recorder. The addition of an electronic trigger will automatically turn the recorder on and off in response to sounds. Analysis of the recorded noise is assisted by graphing the noise on an electrocardiograph. How to record nature's sounds using a parabolic dish to isolate one particular sound and screen out the rest. Stereo microphone set is built around the Panasonic omnidirectional electret condenser microphone capsule. Contact pickup (contact microphone, acoustic transducer) is made from a piezoelectric buzzer. Mitey Mike. Build a good free-field microphone with a frequency response of 20Hz to 20kHz for testing loudspeakers. Est. cost: $50. Mitey Mike II. An upgraded version of the popular high-performance, low-cost mike system for loudspeaker and acoutic measurements can also be used for recording and performance. This new version is smaller, lighter, quieter, costs less, and uses less power. Tip on converting the Radio Shack PZM microphone to a balanced microphone by replacing the phone connector with an XLR male connector. The techniques of using lavalier mikes. Choosing the right external microphone to use when filming a video. A comparison of the various pickup patterns and other physical qualities. Basic principles of choosing and using microphones for videomaking. Answers to some of the most common questions posed about microphones for videomaking. | |||||||||
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