http://www.crownaudio.com/kb/entry/76/
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr98/articles/mic_types.html
Frequency:-
- Pitch of a sound
- Bass, middle, treble
- 20Hz-20,000Hz (Human voice is 4000Hz)
- We can feel frequencies under 20Hz, but not hear it
Decibels:-
- How loud/Intensity
- 0db – Threshhold of human hearing
- 80db – Loud radio
- 105-110 – Music gig
- 120/130 – Jet take off
Dynamic:-
- Low range price (Shure SM58 £100)
- Doesn’t need power
- Tends to focus on a certain area of frequencies
- Loud sounds
- Live music and recordings
- Good for specific recordings
Condenser:-
- High range price (AKG 414 £700)
- High sensitivity
- High Frequency
- Natural sounds
- Studio vocals
- Not great in high humidity environments
- Quiet and distant sounds
- Relies on external power (phantom power)
- Ambient noise (atmosphere)
- Shotgun microphones (good for interviews) Rode MTG-3, Beyerdynamic MCES 86
- Good for acoustic instruments
- Good for voiceovers
- Fragile
- Option for different polar patterns
Pickup pattern:-
Omni-directional – Records sound from all sides (place in middle of room)
Cardiod – Picks up sound from all sides in front of it, but within a smaller radius
Hyper cardiod/Super cardiod –
Figure of 8 – Picks up sound from both sides. Place in between two subjects. Doesn’t pick up much sound from it’s line of positioning.
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