How To Convert Headphones Into A Microphone

[@frittierteGuave]

His copperwire on a cardboard sounds better than the waiting loops of the apple service hotline

[@MementoMoriMementoVivere881]

This was fucking awesome. I loved the presentation with the cardboard. So cool

[@shangrilaladeda]

You’re one of the best audio people on KZbin

[@AudioUniversity]

Thank you!

[@shangrilaladeda]

@@AudioUniversity you’re welcome

[@stripedelicstudios]

Agreed

[@mikebauer6917]

Great demonstration. It’s very helpful to think of the speaker/microphone as two sides of the same coin.

[@AudioUniversity]

Thank you, Mike. Well said - two sides of the same coin!

[@_mickmccarthy]

Love these sorts of hands-on demonstrations, keep up the awesome work!

[@AudioUniversity]

Thanks, Mick!

[@fredericksafoagyei373]

Thank you very much for this impactful sound education

[@T0mmyTune]

This was done in studio by engineer Geoff Emerick to enhance the Bass on a Beatles recording back in the 1960's. That said. You never disappoint here on Audio University!

[@AudioUniversity]

Thanks for mentioning this story. Glad you like the videos!

[@i_teleported_bread7404]

I recall once hearing that this is how Esham used to record his vocals. He would plug his headphones into the microphone input, and then rap into them.

[@Xtn1Insecticide]

I converted sennheisser headphones into microphones for my plate reverb and if you flip the front cover and glue onto the back, you have holes to run the cable out of and a place to cable tie off. They are also great because you can fix them to the steel plate anywhere easily because they are magnetic and stick wherever you want them

[@i_cam]

As a computer science person first, hardware wizardry and really just electromagnetism still feels like magic no matter how many times i see it

[@aishaobscura]

I think electromagnetism might as well BE magic 🤓🤩

[@doctorarmani2112]

A great video which explains the science of sound with everyday objects. I look forward to the next breakdown of sound e.g. how we hear sound.

[@AudioUniversity]

Do you have any tips for how to demonstrate that topic?

[@doctorarmani2112]

The BBC did 2 programmes about sound " Using Candles To See Sound | Soundwaves: The Symphony Of Physics | BBC Earth Science" a clip link below kzbin.info/www/bejne/haO7qqKifbVsd68

[@Xtn1Insecticide]

Q factor and resonant frequency of a driver would be another good subject, when a speakers spider and cone start vibrating at their resonant frequency is pretty interesting

[@christianfoster3806]

I used to use a Sony MD recorder with some cheap Sony headphones in the Mic jack, and used it as a go to remote recording setup, and it worked perfectly. Great full range frequency response, and a realistic stereo image. I'm sure I could get better results with my friend's MOTU interface and Neuman matched pair of stereo mics, but the fact is my setup required no expensive gear, no specialised knowledge, no setup time, and achieves great results.

[@sonicart1808]

An excellent lesson as always thanks Kyle.....this is how sound theory should be taught, not just some diagrams on a board or from a book....

[@fredrikkilander4044]

I once recorded an electric guitar with just a dist pedal and no amp. I had two sets of headphones. One set acted as speaker the other as mic. I am not sure it was all that good, but it certainly sounded a lot more interesting than the signal out of the dist pedal. :)

[@ChinZu]

2:42 Wow, that cardborad actually sounds nice.

[@nikolaikitanov9996]

So simple! Thank you very much!!

[@PumpkinSeed17]

Hey you tricked me! I thought you were going to show a silly demonstration but instead I got a full education!! Wonderful job! :D

[@johnmatt5660]

Very good demonstration, I suspect these discoveries were similar to early audio engineers as they developed the microphones and speakers we use today. Maybe someone watching this will develop the next best device!

[@AudioUniversity]

Love that, John! Thanks.

[@badbob4546]

TY so much 4 the video, very well done.

[@AudioUniversity]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

[@amalcyrus1222]

Awesome content

[@AudioUniversity]

Thanks for watching! First comment!

[@Felix-e6r]

Wow! It was very interesting! You have a great talent of explaining. Thank you. You are inspiring me to go deeper into this stuff. There are more inventions could be made out if this principle.

[@marmelade5118]

Slight correction: Its the number of turns in the magnetic field that matters, not the amount of copper. Thicker copper will however reduce the risk of fire at higher powers

[@kid_missive]

Cardboard has good bass!!

[@cefahprod]

We got some old quartz headphones at my job and we frequently use them as microphone and to be quite honest they are way better mic than headphones xD

[@etiennerenevey2698]

Nice one Kyle! Even though I already know how this works, it’s very well demonstrated.

[@AudioUniversity]

Thank you!

[@SethCrowderMusic]

I always found it an interesting idea to wind my own speakers and especially microphones! Super fun video, it'd also be cool if you maybe did one on what all affects the frequency response of them, like just how hard would it be to make your own coil mics and have it be sound competitive? Of course i'd make an argument that any microphone can be used, i mean if it sounds like what you want it to then whats wrong with that? (Of course i won't be using my phone mic for my vocals any time soon :P)

[@AudioUniversity]

That's a very interesting idea! I'm curious too! I'm not sure I've got the skills to actually orchestrate a good demonstration of that though...

[@MuzdokOfficial]

I figured that out as a child in the 90. First attempt as a microphone 😅.

[@Bradleybrookwood]

Hi Kyle so I've been listening to your guises videos for a while now and noticed that you don't even have any hissing in your audio recordings. I don't know if you use condenser microphones or dynamic microphones just with a better audio interface but I discovered something today. So I just received the triton audio Fet head, plugged it into the SM seven DB microphone and I actually ended up having to put it on bypass mode and turn off the actual preamps that were in the microphone and when I did so there was considerably much cleaner gain than the built-in preamps that were in that microphone. I don't know why they decided to use cloudlifter technology when the triton audio in-line preamp has a lot less self noise. In fact you don't even hear the self noise because I did a/B testing with this microphone as well as the electro voice 27N/D microphone and both of them sound much better and no hissing at all with the triton audio in-line preamp as opposed to a cloud lifter. I wish that the SM seven DB microphone could be redesigned with preamps from Triton audio because I don't want to have to deal with loads of clunky wires and the triton audio in-line preamp actually gives a lot more clean gain as compared to the cloud lifter even if most marketing materials say that cloud lifters go up to 28 or 30 DB, just because they might do that doesn't necessarily mean that there's no noise. The cloud lifter actually introduces a lot more noise with their amplification. The cloud lifter could give you hundreds of DB of gain so they say, that still doesn't change the fact that it's nothing but hissing noises. I would also like to point out that being totally blind I have to rely on my ears because that's all I've got so my ears are extremely sensitive and I hear things that people who have site may not hear and that hissing from the built-in preamp from cloud microphones is absolutely horrible.

[@Uhhhhtheuhhhhmewhentheuhh]

i am now forever going to use my headphones as a mic

[@windowsxpwallpaper8806]

that headphone mic sounds better than most mics in bluetooth headphones

[@srrrb5953]

I think julian krause done it before but it's nice to be redone

[@AudioUniversity]

Julian is one of my favorites!

[@luk_man1763]

Were are you from? You so genius❤

[@stevenheinje181]

I did headphones on my classical. later i used buzzers for a cheap acoustic pickup. then got snobby. dual piezo microphone pickup w preamp

[@jeebsa4m3]

Hello! I just got an old tascam mixer and the direct outs are RCA. Do I need that signal to be balanced before it hits an interface? If so how do I go about doing that? Or am I chilling?

[@tombolo4120]

Can Microsoft still listen to us with internal and external mics disabled?

[@NewDerseyBeats]

🔥🔥🔥

[@kemsat-n6h]

So, is a binaural microphone basically just headphones within a microphone casing?

[@AudioUniversity]

A typical binaural microphone is two mics within a dummy head.

[@BorSam]

Yes, but not an electret or condenser microphone that has different technology.

[@saferbysound1602]

really ..buzzmics welcome to the 70s

[@tobster762]

Surprised how some copper wire glued to cheap cardboard can sound exactly if not better than what’s installed in a $1000 smartphone.

[@mluwakwashezi]

Wooow🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@tharii314]

Spike-rophone and Meaker

[@younico98]

cool

[@ankitchand1387]

😅🤣🤣🤣