Last November, within a “microphone fundamentals” writeup of mine, I mentioned that an Audio-Technica AT2040 dynamic microphone I’d recently acquired had required additional signal boosting ahead of ...

Back in 2014, audio brand Røde released an all-in-one USB condenser microphone that's still a popular choice for podcasters and streaming content creators today. Now the company has announced an ...

Neumann first introduced the U 47 microphone back in the late 1940s. Back then the microphone utilized a Telefunken VF14 pentode tube, but once the company’s supply of these tubes ran dry Neumann had ...

Fig. 1: Diagrams from Wente’s 1916 patent application show the condenser microphone in cutaway view. Diaphragm (#6), which is grounded, is stretched only 5/10000th of an inch from the backplate (#7), ...

The circuit is a sensitive preamplifier using an N-Channel FET and a PNP transistor. This combination gives high input impedance and low output impedance with stabilized gain. Any general purpose PNP ...

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