MAKING SOUND

How the gear in a recording studio
actually works. A working style-frame.

FIG.002 — MOVING-COIL DYNAMIC MICROPHONE · EXPLODED ASSEMBLY

The microphone that turns moving
air into a moving signal.

Sound is just air pressure on the move. It pushes a thin diaphragm back and forth; a voice coil glued to that diaphragm rides up and down through a fixed magnetic field. A coil moving through a field generates a voltage — so the coil hands a tiny electrical copy of the sound out through the XLR. It is, in effect, a loudspeaker run in reverse.

DRAWN IN TRUE ISOMETRIC · ONE ACCENT FILL MARKS THE MAGNET · WOVEN-MESH GRILLE, WOUND COIL & STIPPLED FILTER FROM A SINGLE PROJECTION ENGINE

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