featured image courtesy of freepik Remote capsule microphones describe a broad class of devices that are designed with a condenser microphone capsule extended from its standard amplifier “microphone body”—which may…
image credits: pinclipart and eatuppizza Microphone Powering Part II of this series noted that condenser microphones require an amplifier circuit which must consist of either a JFET or a tube…
Microphone Selection—Specifications On the topic of microphone specifications, there is both good news and bad news. The good news is that most microphone manufacturers supply relatively complete and standardized specifications,…
Part I: Decibels, Impedance, and Operating Level Audio engineering enthusiasts are often confused by product specifications, which honestly aren’t always helpful, as they can lack comparability between product classes. Here…
image credit: wikipedia and PixLoger (from Pixabay) There is much misunderstanding—perhaps even misdirection among engineers on the topic of dynamic microphone amplification, especially with regard to inline phantom-powered amplifier solutions. …
The MSH-4 Design From 2006-2007 I built the MSH-4 tube microphone. Of all of my discontinued products, I’ve gotten more requests to revive that microphone than any other. It was…
Microphones and preamplifiers are drastically inefficient devices for the modern age. But before we explore that thesis, let’s review the development of microphones. Early condenser microphone design We can very…
VU is a VU meter for your DAW . . . and that’s all it does!
Organ Monkey is a MIDI multiplexer application designed to control a real or virtual pipe organ. It allows use of a single MIDI keyboard controller as one or many virtual manuals, and creates a complete registration to address multiple ranks of pipes (or a following VSTi), including functionality of a single or multiple ranks as a mutation or mixture.
A guitar pickup is essentially similar to a dynamic microphone coil. For decades, dynamic microphones have been wired with the voice coil attached to the primary of the microphone’s transformer,…
History of Naiant microphones The MSH-1 The development of the MSH-1 began as a result of Joel Cameron’s Tape Op mic. In fact, it was after I had mentioned on…
