[wiesi] sent in his latest condenser mic. Rather than use pre-built components, he built from scratch (except the discrete components). He’s on his second iteration, and things look pretty good. This tends to be the sort of project that amateur radio guys go for… oh wait, I am one.
I’ve never seen a microphone made from scratch with such good sound quality. pretty sweet, if somewhat pointless.
Posted at 7:19 pm on Aug 10th, 2007 by Wolf
Not pointless, why shop for one and encourage them when you can scavenge for parts and do it DIY.
diyordie
Posted at 8:40 pm on Aug 10th, 2007 by akrevolt
I would normally agree with doing it diy to save money. But thiers MXL’s that sound better, and they do it at 60 bucks.
Sorry Ive spent the last year In a pretty nice studio. So I might be spoiled.
Posted at 12:42 pm on Aug 11th, 2007 by Hockeytree
Actually the purpose was not to make a studio grade microphone.
The purpose of this project was to try to make a decent one. With decent I mean: As good as a telephone connection or better, if possible and in this terms it was an absolute success as it nearly reaches FM boadcast quality.
It is absolutely clear, that you can’t make an excellent one with aluminium foil, because it’s too thick and heavy.
Posted at 4:13 pm on Aug 11th, 2007 by wiesi
if you’re interested in this kind of stuff i’d check out the micbuilders yahoo group http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/micbuilders/
Posted at 1:21 pm on Apr 22nd, 2009 by will d.
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A little noisy and you can tell that there is definately a lot of loss on the high end. Probably needs a lighter diaphram to overcome that.
Still, for home built, that’s not bad at all.
Posted at 2:04 pm on Aug 10th, 2007 by Scott