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Post by Ward on Apr 25, 2015 23:41:32 GMT -6
Dr. Fouxman,
What are the possibilities for microphone development? The current basic technology we work with (ribbons, dynamics and condensers) have their designs basically all from the 1930s. Is there anything new you are looking into or know of? Is there some sort of new element that could be the centerpiece of new technology... doesn't use a piece of foil or a circular diaphragm by any chance?
Surely there has been at least one new idea since the 1940s!
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Post by markfouxman on Apr 26, 2015 13:30:46 GMT -6
Hello Ward, First, please call me Mark. With the Dr. I feel myself soooo important that start blushing  . There are a lot of different ways to make a transducer--besides dynamic or condenser types of pickup there is optical, solid state, magnetic, piezo, laser, thermal... and yes, we are closely look at all of those... The main problem is because of modern market demand all we see around is yet another U47, U67, etc. clone, all the ribbons are judged against RCA (even though there were better ribbons). There are some companies trying to make innovative things, though, in general the industry is pretty conservative for any modern technology. Let's not forget that such cool things as Fostex printed ribbons, RF mics, rectangular capsules never really took off. On the other hand, 'all new is well forgotten old' and with use of modern materials there are a lot of ways to improve old technologies. Neodymium magnets allow to greatly reduce front to back path and increase top end response at very least to 25kHz (something unheard in ribbons even 20 years ago and something what only a few condensers can achieve), new materials for transformer cores allow to greatly improve efficiency, lower the distortions and noise. Generally, they are much lighter and slimmer than used to be... My approach is to exhaust all the possibilities of the old and then jump into the new... Best, M |
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Post by Ward on Apr 28, 2015 7:37:04 GMT -6
The optical sounds VERY intriguing to me!
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