RE: [microsound] Neubauten & contact mics

["Bill Thompson, REALTOR" <myhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

What quality contact mics would you all suggest...I've always made mine from
radio shack components with mixed results...where do you get your 'good
ones'  :)


-----Original Message-----
From: kelly davis [mailto:tokyoaudioarts@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 5:39 PM
To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [microsound] Neubauten & contact mics


>Anyway have any of you guys actually tried picking up vibrations with a
>contact mic?  You have to amplify it so much that its basically acting as
>an
>open air mike with weak signal.  Contact mics dont require amplification,
>but they have to be physically struck or mashed or scraped or attatched to
>something struck or mashed or scraped.  The whole deal with them is that
>they don't register many of the residual vibrations, mostly the initial
>attack.

Before, i disagree, i'd like to ask you of what quality you're contact mics
are and if you're only affixing them to thick, somewhat motionless
(non-vibratory) solid bodies. although it isn't always neccessary, try
putting a good quality contact mic on something quite flexible and you can
get quite a bit of sound out of it. check out WrK, especially one of Toshiya
Tsunoda's work, where he recorded the vibrations of a steel fence between a
parking lot & a highway, (eerie & wonderful noise).

regards,
k


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