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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Laser-Accurate microphone captures 'pure sound'

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Laser-Accurate microphone captures 'pure sound'
There are good microphones, and there are bad microphones, but pretty much all of them are limited by the nature of the technology — specifically, the diaphragm that moves in response to air. The structure of that diaphragm will affect the sound that's recorded, even if that influence is minute. There's simply no way around it."

2 comments:

Robert said...

This is a prity cool thing. the one thing that i dont like is that we will not see this for a long time in theater. is it cool the way that it gets a clean sound. also i dont know if this works it seems like it is to amazing. i would like to see it and hear what it hears like and if it is that cool. also i might seem strand to hear this because the should is very clean. also if the speaker and amps are not that clean then this mic would not help that much. so this will defiantly help the theater world.

Unknown said...

It is really cool to see technology move forward like this, although I do see two issues with it:

From a very nerdy scientific perspective, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle says something to the effect of you can't measure something without disturbing it. Of course, with the technology presented in this article, I highly doubt the influence caused by the measuring device will have an audible or noticeable impact.

The other comment I have on it is that some people are used to the sound of the microphones used for recordings and the medium on which the recording is done, for example the sound of a vinyl record or the sound of an SM58.