MIC UNIVERSITY

Examine the benifits and consequences of different miniature microphone placements.

This article lists several factors that can have a bad impact on speech intelligibility and provides possible solutions to them.

Spoken and sung words should be intelligible. Unfortunatley, it can be technically challenging to retain intelligibility, when recording or amplifying the voice. In this article, we present some facts on speech intelligibility and, most importantly, how to retain it.

Matching dialogue is an art. Recording dialogue for film and drama usually requires two, three or more recording chains, which – when final – should sound like one balanced track.
 

Acoustic interference tubes are used to increase the directionality of microphones. Over the last decades, DPA Microphones has extensively researched and improved the interference tube technology to an unprecedented new level of performance.

This article walks through microphone specifications and explains how they are derived and how they apply to DPA Microphones.

A headset mic is practical for several reasons. You just need to choose one that is appropriate for your situation.

No matter whether you are reporting for radio or television, or creating online content, here are ten tips for any creator working in a home environment.

DPA miniature and instrument microphones are all in-phase. Thus, the user should be aware of this when using a transmitter system with reversed polarity.

The binaural recording technique builds on the principle of placing microphones on a human’s head - or an artificial head. The microphones' position is either just outside each ear canal or at the bottom of the ear canal close to the eardrum. When you reproduce the recording and listen with headphones, the image is very much similar to “being there”.

A drum kit is a focus piece in many musical performances. Unfortunately it can be difficult to mic optimally because of its size and complexity.