Welcome to Micpedia
Welcome to Micpedia! Micpedia is born out of a love for Microphones. It offers authoritative, neutral, technical information regarding vintage and new microphones for audio professionals, recording engineers, studio owners, […]
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Microphones on Micpedia
Which microphones will you find on Micpedia? The use and diffusion of microphones in the past two decades have grown to reach a wider range of applications besides the traditional […]
A brief history of microphones
“…acts for the ear much in the same way that the microscope serves the eye, hence its name”. A brief history of microphones By Hugh Robjohns The humble microphone […]
Read microphone data sheets like an expert
The interpretation of the microphone data sheets By Michael Williams Introduction Despite the remarkable choice of signal processing equipment available in the present-day sound recording studio, the choice of a […]
How to Confidently Choose the Right Mic
By Ron Streicher Introduction Ask any group of engineers about how they choose the right microphone for a given situation, and you will get at least as many answers as […]
Understand Impedance, Microphones, and Preamps
Microphones, preamps and impedance By Rob Jones Every microphone inevitably has an output impedance. And correspondingly every microphone pre-amplifier has an input impedance. These characteristics simply describe the “resistance” to […]