If you are interested in microphones, you might want to tear up an old hard drive. Or you can see how ribbon mics are made.

Both the original and [Frank]’s homage are ribbon microphones, in which a thin strip of corrugated metal suspended between the poles of magnets acts as a transducer. But the similarities end ...

The AXBT was the 4th generation design of the original Marconi Type A microphone (X, B and T representing improvements) widely used by the BBC from the early 1930s onwards. The ribbon microphone ...

As a session guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist, Andrew Synowiec is immersed in a wide variety of recording projects ranging from albums and jingles to work on major film and ...