literature on mic building?

[Tim Campbell]

Thanks for posting that Samuel. Nothing new there. Certainly not worth 45 dollars.

 

[Samuel Groner]

you might want to take that link down the book because of copyrights.

I never thought that such a book is still beeing printed. Altough there is no copyright issue, I removed it to make you happy and because I can use my server space for better stuff.

Certainly not worth 45 dollars.

No, especially because you can get it new for 15.95...
Samuel

 

[kent]

Hey y'all,

I know I haven't been around much lately (believe me, I still lurk alot) but don't forget the stuff I put up eons ago.
http://www.conditionedresponse.com/DIY/DIY.html
The DIY mic section has interesting info.

cheers,
kent

 

[Guest]

[quote author="hitchhiker"] link to large Olsen PDF file.[/quote]
Paraphrase Adobe motto:
There is more to Olson than the Elements!

His musical engineering is also interesting and it is not in
every public library. And is more easy-readable than Elements.
Someone can scan this also.

xvlk

 

[guitarz]

Hello

This is my first post in this forum
And what about microphone design books ?
I really would like to know more about the theory of designing mics.

Best regards
Guitarz

 

[dale116dot7]

Welcome!

Most books I have seen on microphone 'design' have a grossly oversimplified overview of 'here's how a pressure gradient microphone works' or that sort of thing. Once you get past that, much of the information is held closely by those 'in the know', so discovering it requires a bit of detective work. Staring at different microphone capsules is where I've started...

-Dale

 

[guitarz]

But what I wanted too was some books that talked about the circuits design to make the polarizations and the use of transformers or valves etc.

 

[gyraf]

As Dale says, there is very little "open" information about microphone mechanics out there. I don't think you will find anything like the info collected in this forum..

For the basics, there is a german book named "Mikrophonen-technik" or something like that, which covers the basics of microphone types.

Jakob E.

 

[Samuel Groner]

You may want to check this thread for a list of books about mic building:

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=1062&

Samuel

 

[guitarz]

Thanks. Will check it out.

 

[dale116dot7]

The circuits are covered mostly in schematics and you can get those by searching the web, and reading the articles on this forum. The workings of them are basically the same as any other amplifier of that configuration - and that information is in just about any serious electronics engineering textbook.

It's the microphone capsule design (and building) that's the hard part, and that portion seems to be guarded pretty closely. But there are people here figuring that out too.

 

[Gus]

I 2nd that the capsule is the harder part to learn about.

Tim C. has built a k67 type capsule with stuff he had around no fancy machines used.

Its all about the nolinear air flow at the bore sizes and blind volumes drilled in the backplate(s), interferince effects, spacing of frount to back skin etc.........

So in other words alot of building and testing needed



not to hijack the thread Has anyone bought the Blue K47 capsule and tried it yet? I have not found a good use k47 yet I can't seem to find if it is agood copy of the real neumann k47