Microphones and Technique

I came across a vintage brown plastic file box back in 2020 while scrounging local thrift shops for flexible plastic to build my second DIY SASS housing. The price, $1.99. My first attempt at building a DIY was with using a 70s-yellow Samsonite train case, also a thrift store find. The first one was fine, but heavy and more labor-intensive to build that what I present below. Currently, DIY SASS version 2 holds a pair of Audio Technica 3032 omnidirectional microphones. These microphones have been discontinued, but have been replaced with AT’s 4022.… Read More

Field recording of the Rumble of the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge which spans the Ohio River.… Read More

Join me as I spend a cold April night under a full moon in the wide-open sagebrush steppe of southwestern Idaho. Listen to the bizarre sounds of male Greater sage grouse performing their annual courtship displays on ancestral mating grounds … Read More

Tinkling. Plinking. Clinking. Clanging. Rattling. Ah, the beautiful sounds of wind chimes blowing in a gentle breeze. Here are 16 of them, in all shapes and sizes. Some are old. Some are new. Some are borrowed. Sorry, none are blue. Each one is meticulously recorded and layered in a unique way that will have you thinking they are all hanging from your back porch, and you are in the middle of it all.… Read More

A couple of months ago, I decided to do something about the two big limitations of using my Luhd PM-01 AB microphones. These small, low-noise, high-sensitivity handmade electret microphones run on plug-in power (PIP). I paired mine with a Sony … Read More