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November 19, 2022
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, […]
June 6, 2023
Beyerdynamic M 201 by Andrew Thompson The Beyerdynamic M 201 is an end-addressed, “pencil”-style dynamic microphone with a relatively unusual (for its type) hypercardioid pattern and a broad published frequency […]
May 23, 2023
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 […]
May 23, 2023
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, […]
May 2, 2023
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 […]
May 2, 2023
Electro-Voice RE20 By Andrew Thompson History An industry standard and a visually distinctive fixture of the broadcast studio, the Electro-Voice RE20 is a large-diaphragm dynamic microphone introduced in 1968. It […]
April 19, 2023
RØDE NTK By Andrew Thompson History Now known perhaps as much for products targeted at broadcast applications as they are for studio microphones, in the early 2000s the Australian company […]
April 19, 2023
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 […]
April 4, 2023
Shure SM57 and SM58 by Andrew Thompson History The Shure SM57 and SM58 are by some distance the best-selling and most used microphones in the world. There might be microphones […]
April 4, 2023
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 […]
November 23, 2022
CADM179 by Andrew Thompson History One of the most significant indicators in the professional audio market of the early-to-mid 2000s was the rapid and dramatic fruition of what came to […]
November 20, 2022
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 […]
November 19, 2022
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 […]
November 19, 2022
“…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 […]
November 18, 2022
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 […]
May 13, 2020
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 […]
