Effect Microphones

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@zgrb 6 ай бұрын

That first pro42 bass sound might be my favorite upright tone without any separate stands I’ve ever heard. Might have to check that one out. Great vid!

@meistudiony 6 ай бұрын

I was really surprised with it as well. Ive used other stick on mics / pickups before but this sounded way more natural.

@ScottGrammer 6 ай бұрын

Hi, Pax. Hope you're enjoying your holiday. The PP-1 actually uses what was the earpiece of the mic as the microphone. The original mic in old-school telephones was a carbon mic, which requires a DC power supply (about 6-12V at a few milliamps), and either a resistor-capacitor circuit or a transformer. The carbon mic has a very high (line-level) output, a narrow frequency range of about 300-4,000Hz, and it is seriously distorted at all times. These mics don't sound too distorted over a phone line because the phone line also has a limited high end, usually brick-wall filtered above 3,300Hz, and so the distortion is somewhat smoothed out. The element is a "single-button" type, which was inferior to later "double-button" carbon mics, used in early broadcasting.

@meistudiony 6 ай бұрын

You have an option for the pp-1 to put the mic the mic in the ear piece (default) or in the original mouth area (you pay a little extra for it). Im not convinced the element is original. Usually carbon mics need voltage going through it to work. This doesnt use any power, it operates as a standard dynamic. From what i understand, later versions of the phones didn't use carbon elements. I have an old payphone at the old studio, maybe i should try and experiment with that.

@mikebauer6917 6 ай бұрын

Cool. That was fun.

@meistudiony 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for checkin it out!

@some-random-guy-l4r 6 ай бұрын

the tin can mic sounds exactly how I would expect the inside of a tin can to sound. why does it even exist?

@meistudiony 5 ай бұрын

🤷‍♂️ probably because idiots like me see something quirky and have to buy it. Lol

@DaveMcCall 6 ай бұрын

One of my favorite effect "mics" is a piezo element wired to a 1/4" TS jack. One of my favorite creative applications was taping a piezo to the end of a cabasa and a dynamic mic close to the edge. Pan one hard left and one hard right, level match, and you have a crazy wide stereo sounding cabasa. Kind of like Rick-o-sound for a cabasa. But you can tape those things to pretty much anything for interesting effects.

@meistudiony 4 ай бұрын

Thats a pretty cool idea. Thats gotta sound wicked... a direct sound cabasa. The high end has to be ridiculous. Wonder what else would work with something like that? Thanks for the great comment.

@DaveMcCall 4 ай бұрын

@@meistudiony You can get incredibly creative with it... tape a piezo to a shell of a drum, the headstock of a guitar, under the footpad of a kick drum pedal, to a cymbal, inside a guitar cab, get crazy with it. Try things.