European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse January w78 the stars and stripes Pogo 19 whats in a Mike by Hans Fantel new York tires the abundance of performing Talent in colleges and Community sponsored music and theater groups pro Vides occasion or almost anyone with a Good Lapo deck to do some live audio fans rarely seek opportunities for such which would offer them creative Challenge along with appreciation of the artists and actors whose work la documented by their one i is that audio fans lend to be Mike they limit themselves to recordings that do not involve the immediate use of such As copying records or taping off the air in making five by Tome familiarity Wilh microphones us mikes Are the ears of your what they youll and because they Are the Gateway through which sound enters the they occupy a crucial if inferior microphones limit the Quality of sound before 11 even reaches the nothing can make up for the loss cheap portable recorders sometimes come with mikes sup plied by the they do Well enough far casual re cording of but Lack the Range and accuracy to catch the finer aspects of timbre and articulation of the human voice and Ere incapable of meeting the even greater sonic demands of the better tape decks rarely come supplied with their Awn microphones and the Choice is left to the for seasoned this Choice often becomes a highly personal matter because just As Ullh loudspeakers the tonal character of microphones is different and makes of microphones have their tonal quirks and and i have known re eng engineers who speak of their particular pet i m a vow Viust might speak of a the comparison la by no Means in Micro phones differ from one another in much the same Way As one violin differs from another both in a fiddle and in a the tonal character depends upon the inherent resonance of the vibrating this involves subtleties of materials and design that Are Quile difficult to predict or until individual variations Between microphones of the same Type and make were quite and some radio announcers insisted on always using their own the distinctive Char Acter of their voices being As much the product of the mikes As of their vocal improved manufacturing techniques have surmounted and the attributes of High Quality microphones Are now decisive factors to be considered in the Choice of a microphone include directionality and fre Quency one of the most important fac tors is selecting the Basic design approach Best for your among the Hal Down kinds of Only two Basic types Are now in widespread use for recording one is the so called dynamic the other is the condenser i the dynamic microphone works like a Loudspeaker in re instead of converting electricity into it converts sound into a loosely suspended diaphragm picks up sound vibrations from the a Coll of very Fine wire attached to one part of the diaphragm moves within the Field of a the moving Coil in a magnetic Fields acts like a miniature Dynamo and generates an electric signal proportional id the sound Waves in the which move the dynamic microphones have the and Vontalge of being relatively and inexpensive which accounts for their the condenser operates it does not generate an electric it modifies a current running through it in accordance with motion of a delicate Metal foil that swings with the sound Waves of the surrounding because very Little mechanical Force is the foil can be made very Light and its motion can remain As a the condenser Mike responds More easily to elusive High thus catching the uppermost overtones of musical instruments and lending crispness and articulation to because of the condenser microphone has become the favorite of professional yet it is not without condenser microphones Are More Complex and delicate than dynamic they re quire a Builtin electronic circuit of Supply their operating cur rent and to boost their originally weak signals at the this makes them More expensive than dynamic although a fairly 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