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The stereophonic zoom A variable dual-microphone system for stereophonic sound recording By Michael Williams Introduction In the field of monophonic sound recording, the sound recording engineer has a large range […]
Multichannel sound recording By Michael Williams and Guillaume Le Dû Introduction Multichannel sound recording systems are as subject to the basic rules of sound recording as any other recording system, […]
Powering Microphones By Chris Woolf Simple dynamic microphones do not need any powering – they generate electrical energy from a relatively low impedance at a level that is adequate, if […]
Shielding, grounding, and microphone cables By Bill Whitlock There is an old joke that the definition of a cable is “a source of potential trouble connecting two other sources of […]
Getting techno-physical By Jörg Wuttke Two different views of microphones There is an art to making great recordings, but often this loses sight of the underlying science. The artistic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
