New Microphone Technology

This page is for posting reports and links on new (or newish) technology that are making our lives as audio engineers a lot easier!

http://www.sem.org/PDF/New_microphone_technology.pdf

This report is taking about a new 1/4" field mic that performs very similarly to a 1/2". This reduction in size will be really useful for things like the Olympics and other Sporting events, where mics can be placed in positions larger ones wouldnt work in for safety reasons or whatever. This will mean we can really give the viewers a new experience to be as close to being as the live event as possible!

This is a funky little gizmo:

http://www.gizmag.com/mxl-worlds-first-usb-ribbon-microphone/18560/

A vintage ribbon mic that plugs in via usb! I love it! Just goes to show the old days arent truly dead in the water thanks to new tech!

This article is talking about a new microphone clip that delivers the best signal to noise ratio and frequency response from Audio Devices. http://www.futurlec.com/News/Analog/MEMS_Microphone.shtml There is also a link on that page to the company. MEMS work by the pressure-sensitive diaphragm being etched directly into a silicon chip by MEMS techniques, and is usually accompanied with integrated preamplifier. Most MEMS microphones are variants of the condenser microphone design. Often MEMS microphones have built in analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuits on the same CMOS chip making the chip a digital microphone and so more readily integrated with modern digital products.

Here is a link to a new page especially made for a new Super Microphone that was released last year.

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