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In praise of tiny mics and Gen Z media (E61)

The Adam Ragusea Podcast

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The Different Types of Microphones

A microphone is a transducer It's some kind of membrane or thin piece of material that moves back and forth in response to vibrating air. Lava lier mics have been made with every microphone technology you could imagine nearly any kind of microphone design can be Miniaturized into a lav. Some people argue that smaller diaphragm mics actually sound better than big mics because it takes less energy. Smaller diaphragms tend to carry less power in the low frequencies This is apparently highly debatable in scientific terms, but in subjective aesthetic terms Sound engineers tend to prefer really big mics for capturing big deep sounds And most people tend to like some depth in spoken

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