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…