Microphone Essays

  • Essay Unit 25 Music Production Techniques

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    talk about microphone theory and as well as technical specifications of microphones, mixing desks, sample rates, bit depth, and speakers/monitors. Equipment list Specifications Microphones: A microphone is a type of transducer that converts acoustic energy (voice, guitar, acoustic drums, piano) into electrical energy. In this report, I am going to talk about the different types of microphone, and what they are and how they work. These types of microphones are called condenser microphones and dynamic

  • Modern Recording Technique Study Guide

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    information about microphones, transducers that converts sounds waves into electric signals. Varying in design, use, performance and placement, mics are an essential piece to audio production. Though it is up to preference when choosing a microphone, this chapter highlights the importance of knowing how a microphone operates and what situations they are best suited for. There are three types of microphones used in audio production– dynamic, ribbon, and condenser. The dynamic microphone features a thick

  • Personal Narrative: A Career As An Audio Engineer

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    Their job is to make sure everything sounds clean and crisp, and to make sure everything is neither too loud nor too quiet. I’m very interested in studying sound engineering because, I have been interested in sounds since I was little. I’ve always found it very interesting and the variables involved with sound such as, pitch and amplitude. I am a musician myself, and it’s one of the biggest aspects to my life! There are very few moments that go by where I don’t have a song stuck in my head or a melody

  • Alexander Miles Research Paper

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    Alexander Miles Alexander Miles was an African American inventor who made significant contributions to the field of elevator technology. Born in 1838 in Ohio, Miles grew up in a time when African Americans faced significant discrimination and limited opportunities. Despite these challenges, Miles demonstrated a remarkable aptitude for mechanics and invention from a young age. His most significant invention was the automatic elevator door, which revolutionized the safety and convenience

  • Understanding The Manufacturers Specs In Music Production

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    In order for one to understand the Manufacturers Specs in music production, you must first understand the element in which you will be working with. Sound So what is sound? Sound is a series of vibrations that travel through the air pressure or any other medium. We pick up the vibrations when they vibrate our eardrums. Sound is measured in Hertz (Hz) and as humans, we can hear from 20Hz – 20,000Hz(20kHz) and as our ears are picking it up, it’s moving at a speed of 1130 ft/s. Sound requires a medium

  • Plantronics Is The Best-Corded Headsets

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    this headphone is attractive and appealing. The user can easily wear it all day long without feeling fatigue in the ears. • Noise-canceling microphone There is a noise-canceling microphone incorporated in the headphone. Everyone needs to use the headphone to have clear communications. For this reason, Plantronics have incorporated the noise-canceling microphone so that the communication remains clear for both parties. All the background noises of fans, generators and other people talking are eliminated

  • Greek Language Essay

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    Microphone means to amplify small sounds. Microscopes are commonly used at large events or gatherings so that sound is distributed to everyone evenly. In 1827, Sir Charles Wheatstone first used the phrase microphone. However, the first functional microphone was not invented until 1876 by Emile Berliner. His patent on his microphone was later bought by the Bell Telephone Company for $50,000 (“Bellis“). Microphones have recently appeared in the news. Donald

  • Audio Production Techniques Report: Billie Jean

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    is markato, with an accented 1st and 3rd beat; vocal melody uses a variety of articulation throughout In Bruce Sweidens ‘Sound on Sound’ Interview, he reveals the various microphones he used to record the various instruments of the song. He has additionally stated that for certain instruments such as keys and bass, microphones were not required. Below is the list of equipment that he exposed in his interview and his ideas and methodology behind each decision. Instrument Equipment Michaels Lead Vocals

  • Telescreens In George Orwell's 1984

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    that the lower people are fully loyal to them. Winston, the main character, notices many of the things the Party does to control him and the other people of the society. The Party does this in many way such as telescreens, the Thought Police, and microphones to control their people. The Party controls their people with means of telescreens. The telescreens are used to monitor people while they are at their homes. This done in order to take all privacy out of people 's lives. While in the view of the

  • Analysis Of The King's Speech

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    The film starts with a glance of a microphone, and the microphone was usually there when something happened. What is interesting to me is that Albert always used the microphone to reach out to his people, even though he was frighten of the people behind it. However, when he overcame his fear of microphones, he got the courage to greet the people from his balcony. I think the King’s speech towards the end of the film is

  • Summary Of Tara Betts Hip Hop Analogies

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    whole in order to achieve a good relationship. The speaker says, “ If you be microphone/ then I be palm” (Betts 11-12), to express a support system. If this analogy is taken in the figurative text, it can be implied that the palm is the support and the microphone is the voice or representative of self-expression. When one uses a microphone to speak, they use it to be heard –to express themselves. When they use the microphone, in most cases, they have to use their [hands] or their palm to hold it. The

  • Research Paper On 1984 By George Orwell

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    What would it be like to live a life in constant fear that someone was watching your every move.? In George Orwell’s novel, 1984 written in 1948, people are constantly being watched by Big Brother in a place called Oceania. Oceania is made up of different Parties, the Inner Party, Outer Party and the “Proles”, which all have different rules. From the time the people of Oceania wake up, to the time they fall asleep, their lives are watched closely with the use of technology to make sure how they’re

  • 1984 Technology Essay

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    telescreen and hidden microphones all the time. It not different from society today that some places have the camera to watching the people activities. In novel 1984, Orwell was mentioning about the technology that controls everyone life, camera and telescreen and the hidden microphones that watching them all the time and all the information about them are all on the computer. In the novel, telescreen is the device that looks like the television but it also the cameras and hidden microphone.

  • Bratton V. Balmon Case Brief

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    tire tracks behind Preston Balmen’s house, which matched the tires on Jordan Bratton’s car: a maroon 1990’s Buick Century. It was determined by a medical examiner that Preston Balmen had been strangled to death with a cord-like object and that a microphone cord found in Jordan Bratton’s car is most likely the weapon that was used to strangle the victim. The examiner also determined by the way the victim was strangled, that the suspected murderer stood at a similar

  • Analysis Of 1984 By George Orwell

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    observing the media itself. Similarly, George Orwell, writer of the novel 1984, is also a prophet in sense of McLuhan as he views the media for itself. Throughout 1984, Orwell develops dystopic society through the medium, telescreen, versificator, and microphone which oppress the people of Oceania to achieve totalitarian government. In the novel, Orwell describes a new technology called telescreen which is a device used by the party to control the people of Oceania. Through this instrument, proles of Oceania

  • 1984 Technology Essay

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    Have you ever wondered what technology might be like in another world? Some different technology is shown to those reading the book 1984 by George Orwell. The book, based in Oceania, was written in the early 1900’s explaining what life might be like in the year 1984. The country was run completely different than what us in America are use to. The role in technology affects the citizens of Oceania strongly because it stalls in some areas but advances in others. First, there are many different

  • An Analysis Of Cece's Partial Deafness

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    she looks with her hearing aid. They also might argue that Cece can turn off her hearing aids and think that it’s mean and not want her to do that to them. They argue that Cece doesn’t tell them all her secrets like el Deafo or how she can use the microphone to hear where her teacher is in the building. Friends don’t like it when other friends keep secrets from them. The argument that i support is that Cece is able to build relationships and her partial defense doesn’t interfere. They said

  • Ryan Howard Case Study

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    the findings of the microphone cord and gloves. They can show how many other people in Hollyville own the exact same microphone cords. They can say that it is possible that someone else who may have wanted to harm Balmen may have had the exact same microphone cord and may have used it to kill Balmen. The defense can show

  • Pros And Cons Of The Radar Detection System

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    Directional microphones are installed encircling the area of interest and ambient noise levels are measured (DroneShield, 2015). This research will use a combination of 16 omnidirectional and 16 parabolic dish sensors (each placed side by side with each pair equally spaced around the area of interest. This microphone setup would then gain the advantages of both increased field of view and increased detection range

  • Nt1310 Unit 1

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    1.Identify the problem being addressed and is it a new problem or a well known problem? There are a variety of wearable sensors like location beacons, accelerometers, cameras, and physiological sensors. But then, there is a need to develop a single device that can monitor a wealth of activities. Secondly, there is a need to develop tools and techniques for continuously sensing user activities of interest, in order to develop a variety of truly ubiquitous computing applications. Humans have always