Homemade microphones and you

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I've been having a lot of fun making homemade microphones lately.

My first was made from a PC speaker. It sounds muddy and gross. My latest was made from the buzzer of an industrial fire alarm. It adds a metallic clanging reverb to anything you say into it. It also functions essentially as an amped bell.

Both of these -- especially the PC speaker are REALLY quiet unless I run them through my distortion pedal.

I'd like to hear about this kinda thing.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yr going to open the ole Pandora's box of homemade mics if you don't watch it.

try a telephone receiver mic next.

― gage o (gage o), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Chippendale from Lighting Bolt / Mindflayer / Lord Sun Sun uses one of those.

Has anyone used a weird mic to mic an guitar+amp ever?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

earbuds have an odd throw but the sound is terrible.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I had this one song where I used my Yamaha keyboard as a mic. Basically it was running through so much distortion that it was picking up the vibrations from the room, even though it was off. It sounds pretty cool, distorted obviously, but not overly so.

― NA. (Nick A.), Monday, 23 June 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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