breakthrough microphone design

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Please see
http://www.kingcapitolpunishment.c [...] hones.html
also selling well on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d [...] 7352623383

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The vocalist wearing the gray lingerie and tin-foil helmet in the eBay
ad (picture #6) is particularly impressive.

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It is worthwhile taking a look at the previously offered auction items
from this creative individual. now this is what ebay can _really_
deliver!

dhs

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You got to hand it to this guy. He's sold a few of these at $30 each on
ebay. It is exceptionally creative, and pokes fun at the extremists in this
industry. His website is particularly creative in a deconstructionist way,
and his other devices on the site, and on ebay, are at the core of the
"circuit bent" niche. Also, must be nice to have so much time on your hands.
This guy should crash a few ad agencies, he could find himself making six
figures.

"Jay Kadis" <jay@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote in message
news:jay-C36EAE.08111728092005@news.stanford.edu...
> In article <cKCdnQdULcszpKfeRVn-iw@comcast.com>, "jeff"
<spodd@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > http://www.kingcapitolpunishment.c [...] hones.html
>
>
> Sounds especially cool if you play all the samples at once.
>
> -Jay
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On 29 Sep 2005 05:03:32 -0700, "Mike Rivers" <mrivers@d-and-d.com>
wrote:

>
>jeff wrote:
>> You got to hand it to this guy. He's sold a few of these at $30 each on
>> ebay. It is exceptionally creative, and pokes fun at the extremists in this
>> industry.
>
>It's not clear how much of a joke it is. Is there actually a mic
>element in the coffee can? Or should we hijack this thread and turn it
>into yet another "false advertising" rant?

Looks like he's basically using an old car speaker as a recieving
diaphragm. You can do the same thing with a pair of headphones,
plugged into a preamp. My sister used an pair of earbud style to
record a voiceover for a Students Against Drunk Driving presentation
during highschool.
jtougas

listen- there's a hell of a good universe next door
let's go

e.e. cummings

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vdubreeze@earthlink.net wrote:

> You gotta listen to the sound clips. They leave no doubt. If
> you're in a funny mood you'll probably laugh out loud like I did.

I listened to a couple of them, and I thought that the music was the
joke. There are all sorts of crummy microphones out there, and on my PC
speakers, the sound of those clips wasn't any worse (or better) than
many home-made recordings that I've heard.

There are certain applications where a speaker makes a useful
microphone. Before he installed a pickup, a friend of mine used to
clamp a pair of headphone on his guitar and plug them into a tuner when
the room got noisy.

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On 29 Sep 2005 09:11:12 -0700, "Mike Rivers" <mrivers@d-and-d.com>
wrote:

>vdubreeze@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>> You gotta listen to the sound clips. They leave no doubt. If
>> you're in a funny mood you'll probably laugh out loud like I did.
>
>I listened to a couple of them, and I thought that the music was the
>joke.

So did I, to be honest. But if you're recording someone who wants to
sound lofi, I can't think of a better way to do it... ;-)

I might have to make myself one of these... use springs to isolate the
speaker from the can body... maybe use it for miking a slide
acoustic...

>There are all sorts of crummy microphones out there, and on my PC
>speakers, the sound of those clips wasn't any worse (or better) than
>many home-made recordings that I've heard.

Huh. I'm doing better than I thought, then... ;-)
jtougas

listen- there's a hell of a good universe next door
let's go

e.e. cummings