{"id":9291,"date":"2016-05-27T22:07:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T05:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2017-03-28T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:27:22","slug":"collection-microphone-buildout-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/collection-microphone-buildout-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection: Microphone Buildout Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building microphones is fun and seems to be of interest to readers, so here&#8217;s a collection post for posts about that! These posts discuss building both microphones, and, when applicable, their matching microphone driver circuits and\/or pre-amplifiers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Building a Carbon Microphone:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/a-mic-of-constant-sorrow\/\">A Microphone of Constant Sorrow<\/a>, Part I &#8211; I just wanna be able to sing into a can, just like them fellers down at the radio station (19 May 2016)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/20\/a-waveform-sung-into-a-can\/\">A Waveform Sung Into a Can<\/a>, Part II &#8211; test of a driver circuit: version 2 (v. 1 didn&#8217;t work &#8211; 20 May 2016)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/building-the-can-the-carbon-element-mount\/\">Building the &#8220;Can,&#8221; or the a carbon element mount<\/a>, Part III &#8211; wherein I build a shielded containing structure for the carbon pickup element. (23 May 2016)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/once-upon-a-time\/\">Once Upon a Time in a Catalogue<\/a>, or A Microphone of Constant Sorrow, Part IV &#8211; putting the driver circuit into a case, as well as additions to that circuit, and the interface design (25 May 2016)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/not-just-a-display-piece\/\">Not Just a Display Piece<\/a>, Part V: a final photo and ideas for use (27 May 2016)<\/ul>\n<p><i>Related posts:<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/24\/understanding-something-better-now\/\">Understanding Something Better Now<\/a> &#8211; wherein I discuss how building this microphone has made me understand magical technology in 1930s-1960s science fiction.<\/ul>\n<p><b>Building a Crystal Microphone:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9337\">Crystal Gems would use crystal microphones, right?<\/a> Sure. Yes, I&#8217;m building old-technology microphones again (9 June 2016)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/confused-by-background-radiation\/\">Confused by Background Radiation<\/a>, wherein nothing makes sense and everything is terrible (11 June 2016)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9351\">It&#8217;s 1944 forever: the crystal microphone, part II, wherein it works<\/a>, and that was not a fait accompli, things got <em>real<\/em> weird (13 June 2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Building a Ribbon Microphone:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/ribbon-mic-buildout\/\">Ribbon Microphone Buildout<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s surprising now <Em>simple<\/eM> a build this is (9 December 2013)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/ribbon-microphone-ribbon\/\">Calculating the Terminal Velocity of Falling Microphone Ribbon<\/a> &#8211; ruminations on how incredibly thin this material has to be to work (5 December 2013)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/microphone-preamp-build-report\/\">Microphone Preamp Build Report<\/a> &#8211; build the necessary preamp. Also works with dynamic microphones, but cannot receive or send phantom power (2 December 2013)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/should-have-seen-this-coming\/\">Should Have Seen This Coming<\/a> &#8211; a short note about debugging said preamp (4 December 2013)<\/ul>\n<p><b>Building a Large-Diaphragm Condenser Micrphone:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/lets-build-an-rk-47-kit-microphone\/\">Let&#8217;s build a Micparts RK-47\/990B kit microphone!<\/a> &#8211; the complete build report (24 March 2017)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/26\/a-bit-of-errata-for-the-rk-47-build-report\/\">A Bit of Errata (and something I forgot)<\/a> &#8211; turns out the &#8220;complete build report&#8221; was only <em>mostly<\/eM> complete; I neglected to mention an interesting build option. Also, I guessed wrong about the design&#8217;s &#8220;omni&#8221; mode behaviour (26 March 2017)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/lets-listen-to-an-rk-47-microphone\/\">Let&#8217;s listen to a Micparts RK-47\/990B kit microphone!<\/a> &#8211; with test recordings and comparisons (27 March 2017)<\/ul>\n<p><b>Other microphone and preamp customisation\/modification posts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/tube-driven-microphone-preamp\/\">The ART TUBE MP microphone preamp<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/t0000000bs-lets-try-that-preamp-again-with-russian-aid\/\">Let&#8217;s Try That Again with Russian Aid<\/a>, which is to say, a Russian-made tube of more interesting qualities (March 2016)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/mod-report-oktava-mk-012mc-012-microphone\/\">Mod Report: re-componenting an Oktava MC-012\/MK-012<\/a>, wherein Oktava mics have great designs but sometimes iffy components (November 2016)<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building microphones is fun and seems to be of interest to readers, so here&#8217;s a collection post for posts about that! These posts discuss building both microphones, and, when applicable, their matching microphone driver circuits and\/or pre-amplifiers. Building a Carbon Microphone: A Microphone of Constant Sorrow, Part I &#8211; I just wanna be able to [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-diy","category-recording-gear","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10261,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions\/10261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}