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Anyone ever built a dynamic mic?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:39 pm
by blue
So a couple months ago I bought a lot of broken mics on the ebayz. I've been fixing them up, and now I'm curious about trying to make one from scratch. A dynamic mic is exactly the same as a speaker internally, with the exception of a small impedance matching transformer.

But I'm wondering if anyone knows anything detailed about the physics of altering proximity effect, polar pattern, and frequency response, and if anyone knows where I can get some thin mylar film.

I went and bought a bunch of crap from Home Depot last night to turn the leftover working capsules into a set of nice drum mics, so we'll see how that goes.

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:39 pm
by ken
David Royer is usually pretty helpful with this kind of thing.

Ken