Elements - Cigar Box Nation2024-03-28T17:22:57Zhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/elements?groupUrl=hand-built-and-custom-microphones&feed=yes&xn_auth=noJust messing around the other…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2013-10-26:2592684:Comment:17729082013-10-26T03:05:04.117ZPKBhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PKB
<p>Just messing around the other day I took a 3 inch speaker and hooked it up to an old instrument cable I had lying around.</p>
<p>I plugged that into one of my homemade amps... It worked... Just not very loud. I really had to almost yell to hear anything at all and that was louder than my typical busking set up and thus, pointless.</p>
<p>I have a few Shure SM57's laying around and I looked at the elements in those and the diaphragm is a clear plastic, not the black paper material used in…</p>
<p>Just messing around the other day I took a 3 inch speaker and hooked it up to an old instrument cable I had lying around.</p>
<p>I plugged that into one of my homemade amps... It worked... Just not very loud. I really had to almost yell to hear anything at all and that was louder than my typical busking set up and thus, pointless.</p>
<p>I have a few Shure SM57's laying around and I looked at the elements in those and the diaphragm is a clear plastic, not the black paper material used in most speakers. I think the clear plastic requires less force into the microphone to drive. At work I found an old government rotary dial phone and checked the microphone in there and it is also a clear plastic driver.</p> It can, I've done it a couple…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2013-10-25:2592684:Comment:17724662013-10-25T22:22:03.352ZOld Fingers Greenhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/OldFingersGreen
<p>It can, I've done it a couple of times. Used the speakers from an old set of big headphones. It worked but it isn't very good, I also had some luck using a piezo disc suspended in a diaphragm of cling film. Worked surprisingly well.</p>
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<p>I was given an ebook the other day of electrical circuits and there was a circuit diagram to make any miniature speaker into a microphone element. I'll have a look and post up when I find it. </p>
<p>It can, I've done it a couple of times. Used the speakers from an old set of big headphones. It worked but it isn't very good, I also had some luck using a piezo disc suspended in a diaphragm of cling film. Worked surprisingly well.</p>
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<p>I was given an ebook the other day of electrical circuits and there was a circuit diagram to make any miniature speaker into a microphone element. I'll have a look and post up when I find it. </p> In theory any old speaker can…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2013-10-22:2592684:Comment:17692982013-10-22T09:27:51.354ZPKBhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/PKB
<p>In theory any old speaker can be used as an element correct?</p>
<p>In theory any old speaker can be used as an element correct?</p>