CHAPTER 3.3 Microphones for Broadcast Applications
TY FORD
Ty Ford Audio and Video Baltimore, Maryland
GREG SILSBY
Fellowship of Technical Ministries Snohomish, Washington
INTRODUCTION
Improving a broadcast facility’s sound by choosing the right microphone is the direct result of knowing enough about microphones to make the right decisions. The combination of studio acoustics, type of microphone, directional characteristics, and preamplifier plays a role in the selection of the microphone that sounds best for any given situation. A microphone is an electro-acoustic transducer which, when activated by acoustic energy from a sound source, converts or transduces that energy to another form—an electric current. In the microphone, acoustical energy ...
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