Microphone posters

many of the cool new retro copy mics are advertised with guts shots.

Take a look at Telefunken Electro Acoustik USA.

I'll bet they'd be happy to indoctrinate your students... ask them for a hi res file.

best regards,
mike

Many thanks

NYSR


This semester I will be teaching Sound Engineering 1, which is an introduction to the technology behind the properties of sound as it applies to the recording, mixing and mastering process. One of the things I am looking for and cannot find are large posters that show a cross section or an exploding diagram that students can see in order to appreciate the differences in how various microphones types are constructed and how they convert vibration into electrical signals. Preferably I would love a large poster of a ribbon microphone, a dynamic microphone, and a condenser microphone. Does anyone know where one can obtain such posters?

Why don't you have the students do the research and design the posters. If they have to double check their facts to make sure the poster is correct they will darn sure remember the material.  Then you can use them in the next class.  It doesn't even have to be a production microphone as long as they show all the working parts and be able to explain what they do.  Remember even the case design and little slots have a function, that would be the extra credit ! If I were a student I'd love a project like that.

If there are enough students have them work in teams, like team condensor, team ribbon, team moving coil, etc. They could break up the research and share what they learned to "build" the microphones.  If any of them are into art have them do the drawing for the poster.