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even a headphone plugged in wrong is a good enough sensor to start. when it gets bad you start looking at designing your own ribbon elements and considering ac
by h2odragon 2y ago
even a headphone plugged in wrong is a good enough sensor to start.
when it gets bad you start looking at designing your own ribbon elements and considering active pickups. when it gets worse you may find yourself deeply concerned about ADC and clock skew.
- immibis 2y agoIt doesn't matter what your microphone can do, because your sound card does the filtering and digitization.
- h2odragon 2y agoit might; depending on your goals: microphones color the sound and their limits can be as valuable as their capabilities, in the right context. see the mics that harmonica players lust after. "You traded the Cadillac for a microphone? ... I can see that." I believe many sound chips still have ways around any pee-processing they may apply, might check the folks using them for low rate oscilloscope inputs
- RF_Savage 2y agoAnd many modern sound card IC sample at an effective rate of 192kHz and use internal DSP to downsample that to the requested sample rate. Much easier to design a good low pass filter on the cheap when your Nyquist frequency is on 96kHz instead of 22kHz. So the frontend of the sound card might actually be remarkably wide.