pMic

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A printable A-B-Stereo Microphone I wanted to have a mic which I cought use for general purpose recording in conjunction with my old iriver h120 (with rockbox installed). I didn't found a suitable mic without a build in recorder:) So after a little bit googleing I found this article about a low-cost homebrew solution http://www.wildlife-sound.org/equipment/technote/micdesigns/ and decided to get a bunch of these panasonic wm61-capsules described in the article to start experimenting with them - here is the result. A special feature of this microphone is it's variable stereo width (by time-of-arrival stereophony). The button near the audio jack is the on/off-swiitch, the second one a gain boost. By swapping two resistors in the circuit, the gain boost could be easily converted to a gain damp. The preamp circuit isn't necessary at all, if your recorders preamp has phantom power. But the 9v battery increases the headroom for louder signals and powers the 4 capsules more convenient. The distance between capsules and preamp shouldn't boo to long. I'm quite happy with the sound. You can download some audio examples here: https://github.com/Piesi/pMic/tree/master/docs/audio_examples