The post provides an overview of Electret Condenser Microphones (ECMs) and describes practical ways of using them to drive standard microphone inputs. What are Electret Condenser Microphones? Condenser is an archaic term for capacitor. A…
What’s the best microphone element for your DIY microphone? Read on for a list of my favorite elements for various DIY microphone applications. The microphone elements NOT on my list I don’t build microphones as…
This post is about microphone back-end design: it shows how a microphone’s interoperability requirements—which specify which types of devices it must work with—drive key aspects of its design. The microphone back-end In Part 1 of…
This post is about microphone front-end design: it shows how a microphone’s performance requirements drive key aspects of its design. The microphone front-end In Part 1 of this series (Basic DIY microphone design—Part 1: the…
This post describes the overall microphone design process: how to translate microphone requirements into a basic DIY microphone design. Parts 2 and 3 of this series will delve deeper into key aspects of the design…
Many audio inputs supply microphone Plug-In Power (PiP), which is an extremely convenient way to supply power to microphones that use Electret Condenser Microphone (ECM) elements. However, performance will suffer if the PiP supply isn’t…