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Basic DIY microphone design—Part 3: microphone back-end design
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Basic DIY microphone design—Part 3: microphone back-end design

ByDIYmicguy October 24, 2022January 26, 2023

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…

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Basic DIY microphone design—Part 2: microphone front-end design
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Basic DIY microphone design—Part 2: microphone front-end design

ByDIYmicguy October 24, 2022January 26, 2023

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…

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Basic DIY microphone design—Part 1: the microphone design process
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Basic DIY microphone design—Part 1: the microphone design process

ByDIYmicguy October 24, 2022January 26, 2023

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…

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Why you shouldn’t rely on microphone plug-in power
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Why you shouldn’t rely on microphone plug-in power

ByDIYmicguy January 2, 2022January 26, 2023

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…

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  • Home
    • Blog
    • About the DIY mics guy
    • Contact
  • microphone basics
    • microphone design
      • Basic DIY microphone design—Part 1: the microphone design process
      • Basic DIY microphone design—Part 2: microphone front-end design
      • Basic DIY microphone design—Part 3: microphone back-end design
      • Why you shouldn’t rely on microphone plug-in power
    • microphone performance
      • The 4 key microphone specifications and why they’re important
      • Predicting microphone performance—Part 1: what is microphone SINR?
      • Predicting microphone performance—Part 2: using the SINR
      • Predicting microphone performance—Part 3: microphone range prediction
  • directional microphones
    • How long-range microphones work
    • shotgun microphones
      • A deep look at how shotgun microphones REALLY work
      • The history of the shotgun microphone
    • horn microphones
      • How horn microphones work
    • parabolic microphones
      • The complete guide to parabolic microphones
      • I bought a small parabolic microphone for just 40 dollars off the web, and it really works…sort of
      • The Klover MiK 09: can a small parabolic microphone outperform a shotgun microphone?
    • array microphones
      • How array microphones work