http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/ Engadget Comments for Laser-Accurate microphone proves once and for all that everything is better with lasers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
TESTING TESTING? PEW PEW PEW !]]>Sep 21st 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/-----------------------------
"The color that certain microphones bring can be fantastic," he says. "The problem is, you can't have all of them, all of the time, meaning that all music recording is a compromise of some sort. With Laser-Accurate technology, all the tonal processing would take place after the sound is converted to a voltage, not during the act of recording it." A pristine signal offers a new world of possibilities, including the potential to create "plug-in"-type chip-based processors that mimic the characteristics of classic microphones and pre-amps, much as modeling guitar amplifiers routinely do now.
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So basically start with the best sound, then model it to your heart's content as desired. Makes sense to me.]]>Sep 21st 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
I wouldn't rush out to spend a bunch of money on one of these right now, though.]]>Sep 21st 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
A lot of that has to do with inconsistent sounds. Every mic model has to work with hundreds of different microphones, each of which has its own natural variance due to production.

If you can start from a pure tone that is the same from laser mic to laser mic, then any modeling has a much greater chance to work effectively. ]]>Sep 21st 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
I can't wait to hear more about this.]]>Sep 21st 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
You'll need other things for that.. Of course, you can use them with this mic and have frequency-accurate spying, but this mic by itself won't help you at all.]]>Sep 21st 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Don't be fooled by the guy's mouth being near it in the picture, voice is limited and this would be more for instruments, those have the frequency range and dynamics you want to capture I imagine.

And then you can remove it all by compressing it in an MP3 upload it for a youtube version, which recompresses it into aac, for that quality double compression experience, lol
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Isn't this kinda like having your car park within 3 microns of dead center on a parking space?]]>Sep 21st 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
What I wonder about is:
* how will directional mics with off-axis rejection be made with this technology?
Lasers pointing at different bits then processed accordingly?

So many questions.]]>Sep 21st 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Not that it matters, a catchy tune is what most people are content with really.
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Everything except Alderaan]]>Sep 21st 2009 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
http://www.tvlesson.com/video/39206_how-to-make-a-laser-microphone.html]]>Sep 21st 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
As someone who is taking audio recording right now - this has me VERY excited!

"A pristine signal offers a new world of possibilities, including the potential to create "plug-in"-type chip-based processors that mimic the characteristics of classic microphones and pre-amps, much as modeling guitar amplifiers routinely do now."

No more having to buy a shitload of extremely expensive mics!

The only problem I can think of is micing a drum kit... Would you need like 6-10 of these things for each drum? I can see that being expensive.]]>Sep 22nd 2009 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 21st 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/But yeah it'll work]]>Sep 21st 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 22nd 2009 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/Sep 22nd 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
I appreciated the comments above, especially the funny ones.

Yes, Prototype One does sound horrible. Just getting from hypothesis to theory was the BFD. It will be a year before we have the variables sorted out and a decent SN ratio.

As for soda straws, etc, not exactly, those are coffee stirrers to get the air/smoke mix all moving at the same velocity for laminar flow. Yes, that's a sawed off funnel for exhaust and low-noise muffin fans on top. But the cheesiest part of it has to be the $7 laser pointer from Target.

At the moment, it's all about building quick and dirty to zero in on the key factors. Once we have those lined up, it will be worth spending the bucks on better lasers, photocells, machined detection chambers, precision nozzles, recirculating vapor pump and all the rest.

Cheers,

Dave]]>Sep 22nd 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/laser-accurate-microphone-proves-once-and-for-all-that-everythin/
Kabe

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