hahadeastman wrote:To record the sound of a spaceship engine, I recommend a close-mic'd SM-57, and then a stereo pair of U87's for ambience.
How to synthesize a spaceship engine sound
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- 15258 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
I've always toyed with the idea to record my water cooker with a contact mic. Great deep rumbling when that kettle is nearly boiling! But alas, I don't have a contact mic (well, maybe I do, somewhere... but never got round doing this recording)
LPF filtered pink noise is also great, add some distortion to make it appear to have been very very loud (overdriven during the recording)
LPF filtered pink noise is also great, add some distortion to make it appear to have been very very loud (overdriven during the recording)
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- 33159 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Make yer own. Less than a $1 each in parts. Piezo mic element -> wire -> jack plug, and hook up to a Hi-Z input for best impedance matching.BertKoor wrote: But alas, I don't have a contact mic
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- 35162 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from the wilds of wanny
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When produced in bulk maybe. Where I buy my parts the piezo element is €1.60, shielded cable €0.70 per meter and a plastic (yuk) 1/4" TS plug is €1.20 (proper metal Neutrik jacks are €4.75) Totals to €2.80 since I have some mic cable lying around somewhere (quite near to a nearly-forgotten contact mic ) Still doesn't break the bank though indeed. I'm just not motivated enough...whyterabbyt wrote:Less than a $1 each in parts.
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- 33159 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
You're buying your piezos in the wrong place, then Over here you'd only pay that much at somewhere like Maplins. 35p from Rapid.BertKoor wrote:When produced in bulk maybe. Where I buy my parts the piezo element is €1.60, shielded cable €0.70 per meter and a plastic (yuk) 1/4" TS plug is €1.20 (proper metal Neutrik jacks are €4.75) Totals to €2.80 since I have some mic cable lying around somewhere (quite near to a nearly-forgotten contact mic ) Still doesn't break the bank though indeed. I'm just not motivated enough...whyterabbyt wrote:Less than a $1 each in parts.
http://www.rapidonline.com/audio-visual ... mm-35-0288
(Adding £1 for a metal-bodied Rean (which is at least a Neutrik sub-brand) jack does indeed make it more than $1, ie just under 2EUR, but a 30p plastic jack(*) would work, so, with some spare wire it can actually be done for 65p ie under $1. Not that the $1 figure was meant utterly literally, though it kinda is.
(*) https://www.esr.co.uk/electronics/connectors-635.htm
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- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
Would a contact mic work going straight into, say, a Zoom H4N? Or would it require some sort of preamp first?
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
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- 33159 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Yup, straight in is fine, its an H4N I use with mine. Fit the contact mics with 1/4" jacks and use the combo sockets on the H4N.deastman wrote:Would a contact mic work going straight into, say, a Zoom H4N? Or would it require some sort of preamp first?
You could fit also it with a 3.5mm jack and use it on the mic socket on the underneath, but its probably best not to. If you use the 1/4" sockets unbalanced, they're Hi-Z instrument inputs and match the high impedance of piezos.
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- 4590 posts since 7 Jun, 2012 from Warsaw
Low pitch-modulated pulse close to tape-stop effect?
Or better yet, granular pitch warp over synth sample
Or better yet, granular pitch warp over synth sample
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- 161 posts since 24 Nov, 2011 from Palma de Mallorca, Spain
In this link above on the ATM side after downloading, you can get sounds of spaceships.
May be you are interested
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 7#p6138627
May be you are interested
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 7#p6138627
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- 464 posts since 4 Nov, 2011 from Tleat
How's the low frequency response? I've read somewhere that homemades kind of cut at 200 Hzwhyterabbyt wrote:Yup, straight in is fine, its an H4N I use with mine. Fit the contact mics with 1/4" jacks and use the combo sockets on the H4N.deastman wrote:Would a contact mic work going straight into, say, a Zoom H4N? Or would it require some sort of preamp first?
You could fit also it with a 3.5mm jack and use it on the mic socket on the underneath, but its probably best not to. If you use the 1/4" sockets unbalanced, they're Hi-Z instrument inputs and match the high impedance of piezos.
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- 33159 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
That would be what I was talking about with Hi-Z inputs and impedance matching... read the Tim Prebble article I linked to. If you dont have a recorder or soundcard device with Hi-Z inputs, try and get hold of a Hosa MIT-129, or make up the FET circuit Tim links to, they're all ways of improving the bass response.elnn wrote:How's the low frequency response? I've read somewhere that homemades kind of cut at 200 Hzwhyterabbyt wrote:Yup, straight in is fine, its an H4N I use with mine. Fit the contact mics with 1/4" jacks and use the combo sockets on the H4N.deastman wrote:Would a contact mic work going straight into, say, a Zoom H4N? Or would it require some sort of preamp first?
You could fit also it with a 3.5mm jack and use it on the mic socket on the underneath, but its probably best not to. If you use the 1/4" sockets unbalanced, they're Hi-Z instrument inputs and match the high impedance of piezos.
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