Six decades of world class microphone design experience

The world of theatre is exciting. It is also fascinating to support art with advanced technologies. However, even simpler technologies like microphones are valuable, miniature microphones being indispensable in the daily work of art.

Without microphones, there would be no sound to broadcast. This is equally true for both traditional TV broadcast media as well as modern content creation situations. However, given the importance of mics in image-carrying broadcasts (TV), much effort is made to keep them out of the picture. Here, the miniature microphone is preferred because it is almost invisible, easy to carry and place, fits with wireless transmitters, and produces easy-to-process sound if it is a good-quality microphone.

This article defines various forms of immersive audio. There are also a few tips on how to ensure your immersive recordings work.

When it comes to capturing pristine audio in challenging environments, interference tube microphones - or shotgun microphones - stand out as the go-to solution for professionals in various fields, including film, broadcast, field recording, sports and wildlife sound capture. These specialized microphones are designed to mitigate unwanted noise and deliver excellent sound quality.

One factor differentiating microphones from each other is directivity; how much sound the microphone picks up in a given direction. Usually, polar plots are used to explain the directivity. However, it is not always easy to judge the effect of the given polar pattern on the recorded sound.

A microphone should only react to acoustically transferred sound. However, unfortunately, most mics also pick up vibrations that generate unintentional output. This can create undesirable effects like low-frequency feeds, partial timbre shifts of musical instruments, metallic sounds, and so on. In this article, we look at the phenomenon and discover its seriousness.

Many situations require solutions to protect microphones from the elemental issues. Wind and rain generate noise in microphones. In addition, viruses, like Covid, can be transferred to the surface of a mic. Efficient protection in these cases is necessary, but how these solutions affect audio performance must be understood.

Handling noise can disrupt the audio and should be minimized as much as possible. This article takes a closer look at how it is created and gives a couple tips on how to minimize it.