ijvanl
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Hey all,
Has anyone (in the DIY space or elsewhere) ever done a ribbon mic which uses metallized Mylar film (the kind of stuff they use for condenser mic diaphragms) as a ribbon material instead of 2µm aluminium foil?
It seems the perfect material on paper:
it looks to be far more durable than the 2µm foil that seems to be the standard for ribbon mic use,
it's lightweight and flexible enough (at, say, 6µm) to pick up small high-frequency transients (at least when it's under tension, as in condenser microphones; I don't know how good it would be otherwise),
it holds corrugation well,
and it seems to be much more readily available to DIYers than 2µm aluminium foil, which I've only ever seen coming from neat little cardboard boxes special-ordered from Japan, while 6µm aluminized Mylar can be pulled out of most any metallized-film capacitor – already in convenient long strips!
The only issue I can really think of is that the thin coating of metal on the Mylar might not produce enough of a disturbance in the magnetic field to get a good signal level.
That being said, has anyone given a Mylar ribbon mic a go? What have your experiences been?
Has anyone (in the DIY space or elsewhere) ever done a ribbon mic which uses metallized Mylar film (the kind of stuff they use for condenser mic diaphragms) as a ribbon material instead of 2µm aluminium foil?
It seems the perfect material on paper:
it looks to be far more durable than the 2µm foil that seems to be the standard for ribbon mic use,
it's lightweight and flexible enough (at, say, 6µm) to pick up small high-frequency transients (at least when it's under tension, as in condenser microphones; I don't know how good it would be otherwise),
it holds corrugation well,
and it seems to be much more readily available to DIYers than 2µm aluminium foil, which I've only ever seen coming from neat little cardboard boxes special-ordered from Japan, while 6µm aluminized Mylar can be pulled out of most any metallized-film capacitor – already in convenient long strips!
The only issue I can really think of is that the thin coating of metal on the Mylar might not produce enough of a disturbance in the magnetic field to get a good signal level.
That being said, has anyone given a Mylar ribbon mic a go? What have your experiences been?