oh dear it’s another project
- May 9th, 2016
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Or more correctly, a few other projects. Or hilarious things I found out.
ONE! I need a bullhorn for the chorus of this song. YES A BULLHORN. Yes, I can fake it with plugins but searching around for advice online, the most common answer by far was Just Get A Bullhorn, They’re Cheap. And they are, you can get a decent one for $9.
TWO! I’mma gonna build a carbon button microphone – think antique telephone, like those things from the 1930s-1960s – and nobody can stop me. Turns out the parts are cheap and you don’t have to spend $250 for that one from Gold or whoever.
THREE! As I posted on Facebook over the weekend, turns out those old Square credit-card readers for your phone or tablet that let you take credit cards at shows? They’re purely analogue devices, which is why Square upgraded everyone for free last year. Meaning they output sound. Meaning I just recorded the audio of my Costco card and this is hilarious.
I need some quarter-inch magnetic tape, stat. XD
27 comments on the weekend Square reader post, 12 comments on the weekend bullhorn post.
So, this thing is just a pickup coil? Carbon microphones are easy-you can use three pencils and a cigar box. Crushed battery carbons and thin brass foil. Carbon motor brushes. It’s a cheap enough experiment to try.
…I have not encountered a “three pencils and cigar box” approach to carbon microphones and am intrigued.