A shotgun microphone couples a microphone element with an interference tube to provide a highly directional polar pattern, suppressing off-axis noise and enabling sound to be picked-up from longer ranges than a studio microphone.
Shotgun microphones are the most popular type of highly-directional microphone. While not as directive as parabolic microphones, they’re easier to handle and offer a flatter frequency response, making them the go-to choice for high-fidelity sound capture at ranges of up to several feet.
However, while there’s already a lot of information on the web about shotgun microphones, most of it pretty superficial from a technical standpoint. This blog is different: here you’ll find detailed technical information about how shotgun microphones work, how well they work, and even how to build one.
As with many devices, today’s shotgun microphone wasn’t a single invention, but was rather the cumulative result of several innovations over time. Four of these innovations stand out in the history of the shotgun microphone:…
How exactly does a shotgun microphone exploit the principle of destructive interference, and how does shotgun microphone design determine performance? Read on for the most detailed explanation on the web. The purpose of a shotgun…