If the author's reading this, the site renders like this in a recent Firefox - https://i.imgur.com/lazMsqx.png
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The Ribbon Microphone
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#42If the author's reading this, the site renders like this in a recent Firefox - https://i.imgur.com/lazMsqx.png
I don't have this particular issue, but instead the text size is hilariously huge. The CSS contains this fragment:
@media (min-resolution: 1.5dppx) {
:root {
font-size: 2.4rem;
}
}
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#44Is there a sample sound? Cool design
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#45They don’t have any EMI shielding? I use an aluminum pedal box, cut holes, and screen them with fine steel mesh. The XLR terminal grounds the mic, cable, and transformer together. These should have such a low noise floor they can pick up LF signals like train tracks and subwoofers rumbling off in the distance.
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#46For anyone interested in how mucrophones can sound different, check out Jim Lill's video [1] where he A/B tests a bunch of mics against one another and industry standards. He has a whole series of videos where he explores what contributes the most to "guitar tone", all the way from the strings to your ears and in between. It's a bit of an eye opener to say the least. Highly, highly recommended. 1: https://youtu.be/4B…
I think people get too hung up on the natural frequency response of mics. A ribbon mic can achieve such a low noise floor with high sensitivity that high gain EQ stays clean.
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#47there is (now) a sample recording, for anyone interested.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, a ribbon microphone is sort-of a dual of a dynamic microphone if you squint hard enough. An electrostatic speaker is closer to the inverse of a condenser (capacitor) microphone
Just to add: inverse of ribbon microphone is ribbon speaker [1]. [1] https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/pauls-posts/how-a-ribbon-speak...
Thank you. I've dabbled in audio for 25 years and had no idea these existed.
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#49If the author's reading this, the site renders like this in a recent Firefox - https://i.imgur.com/lazMsqx.png
This is a common problem with stylesheets based on tufte-css (an excellent project) which attempts to make things nice for mobile users but often makes the wrong assumption about screen geometry.
My blog had the same problem until I removed the css styles that triggered the font size.
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#50It also led to the ability to sing in a quieter, more natural way, and gave birth to the "crooner" style. The earlier popularized carbon button microphone (invented in 1878) didn’t enable this personal singing style. If you look at one you might mistake it for the receiver of an old telephone handset (which in essence it was).
It's a fascinating topic, how technology forms new genres of music. The microphone is often overlooked for its importance in 20th century music evolution.