Building a DIY Ribbon Mic

[@deancoyle]

Great project - the mic sounds really good!

[@nahuelloza]

Felicitaciones! Es todo un éxito!

[@fagiano642]

Where did you find the aluminium foil?

[@SubbParProductions]

Sorry it's been so long ago I can't remember.

[@in.der.welt.sein.]

With the geistnote transformer, did you try flipping the transformer 180 degrees?

[@SubbParProductions]

I tried a bunch of different combinations after the initial wiring didn’t work well

[@evolvingevrday]

Not a preampt. Will not clean up your signal. DI boxes , used for guitars until that SM 7 POS started selling after 45 years for some reason , used to only sell 180 units per year for two decades, They were on eBay in 2009 for $30-40 bucks still. I despise what that thing has done . Back to the cloud lifter, There's no way for it to clean up a signal if you're just boosting it, which is exactly what that thing does. The power comes from the preamps, so all the does is amplify. Technically, it adds a noise. Minimum of 1.5 decibels of self-noise out of the 24 available.

[@rafremafetei]

Are you happy with such a noisy mic?

[@SubbParProductions]

Ouch, well I’m happy learned a lot in this processed and have an extra mic in my locker. The disclaimer in the description does also say the noise is much better after I put some shielding around the transformer.

[@rafremafetei]

@@SubbParProductions You might try to shield the entire mic altogether to reach commercial ribbon mic noise level. A wood microphone is never a good idea.

[@SubbParProductions]

@@rafremafeteiI agree, still surprisingly the metal screen on both sides is tied to ground which helps, as well as shielding the transformer now makes a world of difference. I have plenty in my mic locker and this was a great learning experience.