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Articles about microphones (0-50 of 546)
- Push To Talk Conference Microphones An Edge Over Conventional Microphones
By: Jeremy Ducklin | - The key differences between Push to Talk Conference Microphones and Conventional Microphones are; push to talk microphones are controlled by the delegate or user, who can select by pressing a button, when to speak or not. A conventional microphone is operated by a technician at the back of the room. Therefore when there are highly interactive discussions a push to talk conference microphone in front of each delegate allows them to participate immediately and more fully.
For Technica ...
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- Benefits Of Interpretation Equipment, Audience Response And Conference Microphones
By: Jeremy Ducklin | - Interpretation equipment allows interpreters to communicate with individuals doing a speech, meeting or lecture. Infrared receivers and individual headsets are used to make sure that every individual who needs the interpretation has direct access to it. This is a great concept because the interpretation can occur as the lecture or meeting occurs. There is no need for interrupting the speech or lecture. Each interpreter has access to a different channel so multiple languages can be spoken at one ...
Tags: Interpretation Equipment, Simultaneous Interpretation, Translation equipment, Interpretation system, Simultaneous Interpretation equipment, Conference
- Audio Visual Communication Equipments Essential Need For Corporate Communication
By: Jeremy Ducklin | - Simultaneous interpretation equipment, conference microphones, and Voting/Audience response systems are among the most basic needs for corporate communication. In a modern competitive business environment, all organizations need the latest electronic communication systems, which can make internal and external communication smooth and flexible.
Business and industry is now globalised and companies are dependent upon audio and video conferencing systems for group meetings and essentia ...
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- Choosing The Right Rental Microphones For Your Event
By: Art Gib | - If you are hosting a big event and need to be heard, then you are definitely going to be concerned about the type of microphones and audio equipment you will need to rent. There are many kinds, of course, and a quality audio equipment supplier will be able to offer great advice on what might be best for you. But it's always good to approach renting equipment from a position of knowledge, so here are some of the basics about the different types of microphones on the market today.
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- How To Choose The Best Cordless Microphones
By: David H Urmann | - Cordless microphones are in demand to lecturers, performers and hosts. The best cordless microphones offered in the market are of high quality and reasonably priced.
Cordless microphone is a portable gadget that magnifies your voice when talking or performing before a crowd. This is also known as a wireless microphone. It uses the same microphone frequency range: VHF, UHF and Giga Hertz.
UHF is fixed frequency and preferred by most professionals. VHF is a cheaper ...
Tags: VHF, Gigahertz, headset, cordless karaoke microphone, bodypack
- Wireless Microphone System And Multimedia
By: David H Urmann | - Wireless microphones are one of the essential devices used in computers, developed primarily for multimedia tasking. This system simplifies the work in an efficient and expedient manner. These are effective and versatile tools used in varied applications speech recognition and dictation, video conferencing, concerts, computer telephony, and more.
Description of Wireless Microphones
A computer wireless microphone is a microphone with no tangible cable and is directly conne ...
Tags: Computer wireless microphone, Sound Card, USB Microphones, Speech Recognition, Computer telephony, Digital Hybrid System, Digital Signal Processing (D
- To Keep Your Business Safe, Listen To It!
By: Fabio | - It may sound harsh, but when money is involved, you can place your trust in no one but yourself.
Even family members, or the most reliable of employees, or your longtime business partner, may give in to the temptation of leaking important business secrets, which should not leave your office.
Or at a different level, it would be interesting to know what your employees REALLY think about you, what they talk about when you are not in the office and so on. It may be just gossip ...
Tags: wall microphones, wireless microphones, microphone spy hear
- Most Important Home Recording Equipment And Supplies
By: David H Urmann | - Home recording equipment and supplies ensure quality audio output. There are several essential home recording devices.
On top of the list of home recorders are microphones. Microphones include dynamic microphones used for stage and studio. It is not required to use phantom power. It is compatible to use with snare drums and guitar cabs. Dynamic mikes are more durable. Condenser microphones on the other hand need phantom power. Ideally it is equipped with a large two diaphragm cap ...
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- Features Of The Various Sound Controlling Music Gear
By: Victor Epand | - Music is something that knows no discrimination. It is enjoyed by almost everyone in this world. It is in fact very rare to find someone who does not love music. From time immemorial human beings have been engaged in creating music through a variety of instruments. With the passage of time and the advancement of science and technology, people are now not only creating music with the help of instruments but also enhancing the sound quality through sound controlling music gear.
Ther ...
Tags: Sound controlling music gear, microphones, speakers, amplifiers, mixer, multi channel, surround soun
- Evolution Of Different Types Of Music Gear
By: Victor Epand | - Music is a form of expression consisting of sound, rhythm, harmony, etc. The definition of music varies according to culture and social backgrounds. It can be divided into various categories. Music gear is the whole set of equipment like sound equipment, stage speakers, recording equipment, DJ equipment, microphones, speakers, etc. Here we try to explore the evolution of different types of music gear.
Amplifier is a device that converts a signal with a small amount of energy into ...
Tags: music gear, recording equipment, DJ equipment, amplifier, microphones
- Various Music Gear Required For Bands
By: Victor Epand | - Bands are something that have the capability of getting anybody into the dancing groove with its foot tapping tune. In fact, the music created by the bands is just extraordinary and has always been very popular.
Bands are extraordinary because the music created by them gives a different feel. This actually depends on the kind of music gear they use and the way they use them. And this is the reason why music gear for bands are always of high quality and technically advanced.
Tags: sound equipments, microphones, stage speakers, multitrack recorder
- Different Kinds Of Wireless Microphones And Their Advantages
By: Victor Epand | - A wireless microphone, as the name implies, is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated. Wireless microphone systems are a key component in almost every broadcast, motion picture, theatrical and sound stage production, as well as corporate, religious and educational venues.
The professional models transmit in VHF or UHF radio frequency and have true diversity reception which eliminates ...
Tags: Wireless microphone system, Handheld wireless microphone, Bodypack wireless microphone
- How Does A Microphone Work
By: Victor Epand | - Microphone was devised to intensify and amplify small sounds, making them more distinctly audible and comprehensible, thereby facilitating long distance communication. The first microphone was invented and developed to be used as a telephone voice transmitter. The word microphone is taken from two Greek words. They are micro, which means small, and phone, which means communication.
A microphone is a form of a transducer that changes sound from one form to another. It converts soun ...
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- The Basic Information On The Carbon Microphone
By: Victor Epand | - Carbon Microphone is also known as carbon button microphone or a carbon transmitter. It consists of two metal plates separated by carbon granules. One of the plates faces outwards and acts as a diaphragm. When sound waves strike these metal plates the granules change which in turn alters the electrical resistance between the plates.
Direct current passes through the two plates and the changing resistance results in changing current. The current then passes through a telephone sys ...
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- Prospects Of Us Music Gear Industry
By: Victor Epand | - When we talk about the music gear industry, we mean the businesses and organizations that record, produce, publish, distribute, and market recorded music. The music publishers, recording industry, and the record production companies have a great impact in molding the US music gear industry.
The growing music industry in the US has enhanced the growth of music gear industry in many ways. There are a number of establishments engaged in the retail sales of musical gear. As the music ...
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- Popular Brands Of Guitar Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - Guitar microphones come in a variety of setups. They are intended to be used with equipment made for microphones. The concept is very simple. A microphone is meant for a PA system and not for a guitar amplifier.
The units will work to a degree in a guitar amplifier and then we hear the full potential of the instrument. Almost all the manufacturers provide the facilities for the acoustic guitar player to capture the most natural sound in a live or recording setting.
Tags: Microphones, Wireless microphones, Guitar Microphones, Amplifier
- Importance Of Microphone Placement
By: Victor Epand | - Microphones are like real estate property; placement and location is one aspect which cannot be neglected. If a microphone testing is conducted with a number of positions of the microphone, and the music is recorded, it will definitely show the great importance of microphone placement.
Steps to remember in pacing a microphone correctly
One of the rules of thumb is to place the mic at the side of the mouth of the speaker but as close as possible. However, if it is to ...
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- The Mechanism And Functioning Of A Condenser Microphone
By: Victor Epand | - What is a condenser microphone? This is the microphone where a capacitor is used; so, it is also known as capacitor microphone. All the microphones work on the same principle of a diaphragm receiving the sound or music and converting it into electrical signals. The diaphragm, in the case of condenser microphones, is positioned in a way where it acts as a capacitor and the distance between the plates is changed by the generated vibrations.
An electronic transducer is formed which ...
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- Wireless Microphone Buying Guide
By: Victor Epand | - A microphone that comes without a cable and that can be connected directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment is a wireless microphone. A German equipment manufacturer claimed in the year 1962 that they invented the first wireless microphone.
Though various individuals and organizations claim that they were the first to invent it, history says that Rex Harrison made the first use of wireless microphone for his film My Fair Lady in the year 1964.
While ...
Tags: wireless microphones, VHF microphones, UHF microphones
- All The Details About Microphones For You
By: Victor Epand | - Though the modern microphones follow the same principle, they do it electronically. And thus, it captures pressure waves in the air and converts them into electric signals. Microphones are of different types, and they differ in their functioning too. Generally, there are five types of microphones commonly used for various purposes.
Condenser microphones: They are also called capacitors as the diaphragm acts as one plate of a capacitor that responds to the sound waves. The movemen ...
Tags: sound, microphones, diaphragm, current
- How To Select And Operate Wireless Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - Wireless microphone is the newest edition in the world of microphones. Selecting and operating a wireless microphone is not very easy. It is necessary to know how to select and operate wireless microphones.
There are lots of microphones available in the market and naturally the question arises why we should select a wireless microphone. We will try to find out the answer below.
Wireless microphones will give you some benefits. The best advantage of a wireless microp ...
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- Types Of Microphones And Their Uses
By: Victor Epand | - The main thing behind the working of a microphone is the diaphragm. The whole technology of the microphone depends on the diaphragm because it is the only thing that captures the sound waves to create the signal. So, whatever the technology is, the functioning of the microphone is in the same way. But of course, the uses differ for different technology as every microphone has its own usage.
Technically speaking, there are five types of microphones commonly used for various purpose ...
Tags: wireless microphones, condenser microphones, ribbon microphones, dynamic microphones
- Categories Of Music Gear
By: Victor Epand | - Categories of music gear encompass under them a wide range of musical instruments and equipment. There are a lot of categories and sub categories of music gear. They can be classified based upon the usage or based upon the mechanisms.
The two main categories that they can be classified into are acoustic and electronic. The gears that do not need any external electrical help are called acoustic music gears. Any acoustic instrument is a part of this category. The gears that are ele ...
Tags: Categories of music gears, acoustic music gear, electronic music gear, microphones, amplifiers
- Sound Controlling Music Gear
By: Victor Epand | - Music is something that knows no discrimination. It is enjoyed by almost everyone in this world. It is in fact a rarity to find someone who does not love music. From time immemorial human beings have been engaged in creating music through a variety of instruments. With the passage of time and the advancement of science and technology, people are now not only creating music with the help of instruments but also enhancing the sound quality through sound controlling music gear.
There ...
Tags: Sound controlling music gear, microphones, speakers, amplifiers, mixer, multi channel
- Electric Guitar Recording Techniques
By: Victor Epand | - A guitar is a type of musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It usually has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten and twelve string guitars also exist. An electric guitar is the kind of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel cored string into electrical current, which is then amplified.
There are various ways to record an electric guitar. The traditional method is to connect to a really good amplifier. The ...
Tags: electric guitar recording techniques, microphones, dynamic microphones, amplifiers
- Basic Guideline For Getting Your Microphone Repaired
By: Victor Epand | - Microphones are one of the most sensitive instruments. They can stop performing due to various small problems. The first step lies in identifying the cause for the non functional state of the microphone.
However, before you start repairing your microphone here are a few general tips to help you to stop it from failing again. The microphone being a responsive object is sensitive to even slight changes in the weather. It is always advisable to keep them inside a box wrapped in mois ...
Tags: microphone, microphone repair, microphone safety, microphone maintenance
- Building A Simple Recording Studio For Beginners
By: Constantine Balbozar | - There is a huge selection of gear to choose from when wanting to record music. Sound quality is very important when recording music so the recording musician can select the right equipment for getting the best sound. To do so however, to get the best quality in creating and recording music you need to know a few details regarding various recording gear.
To start, someone who is looking to record music professionally should have some short of multi-track recorder. You can either have an a ...
Tags: recording studio, recording equipment, microphones, mixing consoles, multitrack recorder, mixer, studio equipment, recorders
- Types Of Microphone Stands
By: Constantine Balbozar | - Microphone stands are used to hold up microphones. These types of stands are used in any situation where there is need to keep a microphone near a sound source, or keep ones hands free while performing or giving a speech. Microphone stands keep the microphone on a fixed position for the singer or performer. There are many different Microphone stands that accommodate the variability of microphone uses. Quality, durability and versatility are usually attributes that constitute a good microphone s ...
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- History, Growth And Development Of Modern Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - The word microphone comes from the Greek words micro meaning small, and phone meaning voice. It first appeared in a dictionary in 1683 as an instrument by which small sounds are intensified.
This was in reference to the acoustical hearing devices such as the ear trumpets and megaphones of that era. Microphones were introduced with the first articulated telephone transmitters, developed almost simultaneously by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. Then it was used as a liquid tra ...
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- When Technology Defines The Accessories For Your Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - The audio system is an ever-changing technology. With the recent changes in the audio market, the microphones available are various, meeting different needs of those who are looking for it. However, we should remember that the basic designing structure of a microphone stays the same.
Sound is created by pressure and thus microphone works on this principle. The accessories for your microphones though basically stay the same, slight changes may occur depending on the type of microp ...
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- Change Brought By Wireless Microphones In The Music Industry
By: Victor Epand | - Wireless microphones are microphones, which are not connected to any cable or wire. The one main advantage with these microphones is that they allow you to move freely, or in other words they allow mobility. Since, they are not attached to any cable they offer a wife range of coverage. These microphones function with the help of an internal antenna system. We will discuss the uses and advantages of these microphones that have brought about changes in the music industry.
Wireless ...
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- Basic Guidelines For Getting Your Microphone Repaired
By: Victor Epand | - Microphones are one of the most sensitive instruments. They can stop performing due to various small problems. The first step lies in identifying the cause for the non functional state of the microphone.
However, before you start repairing your microphone, here are a few general tips to help you to stop it from failing again. The microphone being a responsive object is sensitive to even slight changes in the weather. It is always advisable to keep the microphone inside a moisture ...
Tags: microphone, microphone repair, microphone safety, microphone maintenance
- What Microphones Should You Use For Home Recording Guitar
By: Richard Marples | - A microphone is a device made to capture waves in air, water or hard material and translate them to an electrical signal. The most common method is via a thin membrane producing some proportional electrical signal.
Most microphones in use today for audio use electromagnetic generation (dynamic microphones), capacitance change (condenser microphones) or piezoelectric generation to produce the signal from mechanical vibration.
What are the differences between the type ...
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- The Advantages & Disadvantages Of Wireless Microphones
By: David H Urmann | - For the best lapel, karaoke, professional wireless microphones and for the wireless microphones information this article will help you to get all the necessary details.
Beat the tangling cables during an on stage performance with the wireless microphones. It is the best way to utilize the stage and getting a clear sound while not bothering about the microphone cables. The wireless microphone, as it is typically interpreted, is a microphone, which works without a cable.
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- How The Early Telephones Were Invented
By: Malcolm Blake | - Today's cell phones are packed with advanced technology too intricate to easily understand. They represent the very pinnacle of personal technology and the science and craft of their designers is clearly evident. In this article, I want to show you just how far we have come in our technology by revisiting the early developers of the first telephones, and showing what technology they created.
It has been shown that in order to transmit speech by electricity it is necessary to cause ...
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- The Development Of The First Microphones
By: Malcolm Blake | - The invention of the microphone was a result of the development of the telephone. As a technology was developed to transmit sound over a distance as an electrical signal, methods of converting sound into electrical impulses were required. The very first microphones were bulky, awkward and performed poorly. They used liquid mercury as a variable resistor, and tended to muffle out sound. A more sensitive and mobile solution was needed.
In 1881 Henry Runnings devised a transmitter wh ...
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- Growth, Mechanism And Uses Of Button Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - A button microphone is also known as carbon microphone or carbon transmitter. The design of a carbon microphone is quite a simple one. It consists of two metal plates separated by small pieces of carbon. One of the pieces between the two faces outwards. Its function is to work like a diaphragm.
The mechanism by which a button mic works is quite complex. The sound wave, which is caused by the displacement of the air particles, strikes the plate, which acts like a diaphragm. The or ...
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- Popular Brands Of Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - It is said that everything passes everything changes. This change happens with time. Like all other things, microphones also changed with time. And this change occurred with the use of advanced technology by popular brands of microphones. There was never such wide and varied range available until these brands emerged. These brands changed the face of market for mikes.
These brands started making better microphones using advanced technology. These mikes gave music a better performi ...
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- Varieties Of Different Types Of Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - All microphones convert sound energy into electrical energy, but there are many different ways of doing the job, using electrostatics, electromagnetism, piezo electric effects or even the change in resistance of carbon granules. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, tape recorders, hearing aids, motion picture production, live and recorded audio engineering, in radio and television broadcasting and in computers for recording voice, VoIP, and for non-acoustic purposes such ...
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- Different Uses Of Various Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - Microphones are used in many applications such astelephones, tape recorders, hearing aids, motion picture production, live and recordedaudio engineering, in radio and television broadcasting and in computers for recording voice, VoIP, and for non acoustic purposes such as ultrasonic checking.
A microphone is a device made to capture waves in air, water or hard material and translate them into an electrical signal. The most common method is via a thin membrane producing some propo ...
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- Functioning And Features Of Dynamic Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - Perhaps the most preferred and definitely the best microphone for sound and music reproduction is the dynamic microphone. It is really dynamic. It works like a loudspeaker but reversed. For managing high volume levels from musical instrument or amplifiers these microphones are the perfect choice, that do not even need batteries or any kind of external power and does not have internal amplifier too. Moreover, they are best suited for guitar amplifier, drums and back up for vocal sound. Infact the ...
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- Knowing And Buying Computer Microphones
By: Victor Epand | - In this technology driven world the computer seems to be part and parcel of life. Almost everything is now being done with the help of computers. When Charles Babbage invented his difference engine in 1821 the first computers were born. In fact he is sometimes considered the father of computers.
Gradually with the passage of time revolution in computer came. So, various kinds of computer accessories gradually came into existence. Like speakers, microphone etc. Computer microphone ...
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- Technology Used In Laser Microphones And Their Uses
By: Victor Epand | - Microphones are commonly used in every stage performance, music concert, television program and such other events. Generally, during a performance, sound waves are captured in microphones with the help of diaphragm, which experience a vibration when the waves get initiated into the microphone. Finally the original sound is received after the vibrations get converted into electrical signals. Among various types of microphones, laser microphones are the exclusive ones, with latest technical featur ...
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- Studio Microphones For Excellent Recordings
By: Victor Epand | - A studio is a place where we can have the avail facility of sound recordings. According to the type of studio we can record bands, artists, conduct voiceover for commercials, cartoons, shows, movies etc. And from this definition it is clear that microphones are an invincible part of the studio. A microphone is nothing but an acoustic to electric transducer or sensor that has the capability to convert sounds into electrical signal.
The microphones as we know it today started as a t ...
Tags: studio microphones, ribbon microphones, USB microphones, condenser microphones, dynamic microphone.
- Wireless Microphones Buying Guide
By: Deven | - Wireless Microphone Buying Guide
A wireless microphone is all about convenience and a great sound quality at the same time. As the name implies, a wireless or cordless microphone is a device that has no cables altogether. It is a higher version of a typical wired microphone apart from the fact that this model is cordless and bit bigger than the conventional microphone as it houses a battery pack and he transmitter. With some of the great technological features, the wireless microp ...
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- High Tech Talking With Voip Microphones
By: Frank Harris | - The advent of communication technology brought great attention for a pc peripheral that was once not thought to be a crucial part of computers the microphone. With the emergence of Voice over IP telephones, microphones have become a commodity that is now a necessary component of information technology. Several microphones became available to the general market in the recent years for the main purpose of using them in IP telephony. There are several kinds of microphones that can be used with Vo ...
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- Multiple Microphones To The Rescue
By: Tyler James Ellison | - Recently I did a wedding video with a live ceremony in the back yard of a home. It was a VERY windy day and the sound bars on my camcorder let me know that the built-in microphone was picking up all of it. One of the best equipment purchases I ever made was the Azden200 UPR two channel UHF wireless microphone unit.
While the wind howled and screeched I could calmly listen to the audio track for the ceremony without the slightest worry. The voice of the preacher came through my h ...
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- The Five Major Microphones
By: Jon Kilminster | - Making your voice heard with microphones is essential in certain settings.
The first microphones were invented in the course of developing the telephone, a fact that's overlooked by many people but obvious when you think about it. Since then, microphones have come to be used in all manner of technology, from making records to performing live music, from dictaphones to personal computers.
Many devices such as tape recorders, video cameras and even some computers have ...
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