Cell phone's headset mic

[Roli]

Here's a recording that I made using an electret microphone of a cell phone's head set. The mic has its own surface mount little preamp. I've been using some hall reverb only. I played it on my steel string acoustic, a cheapo Hohner.

Nicae's Song

Use right click and 'Save target as...', cause Tripod doesn't allow direct download.

[hezochiah]

Wow... Sounds great.

Never would have thought of that.

[Jehle]

That's incredible! Really nice playing and that tone is fantastic.

Hmm... I think I have an old head set around somewhere.

[nccyr]

This is fantastic!

I registered to this forum just because I enjoyed your

music so much and I wanted to post a reply.

Can you give more details on how the microhone

was mounted, distance from the strings, etc.

(maybe a picture if you can). This is great stuff.

My wife wireless phone just died recently and

I was wondering what to do with the electronics...

Thanks,

ncc

[Roli]

I unfortalnetly don't have any camera or scanner right now to post pictures, but here we go: first I soldered a shielded wire to the right contatcs of the little mic, then I glued a plastic clip onto the mic. I filed the clip a bit so I can put it on the pins of the bridge (steel string acoustic). I gotta put it around there, cause at the soundhole it would be way too bassy.

One thing you gotta know: I used the microphone plugged right into the soundcard's mic input, which has got its own phantom-power. This trick will not work without a phantom-powered preamp input.

And I'm glad you liked the music.

[nccyr]

Roli,

Thanks for the reply and the additional info.

ncc

[syxxstring]

They use electret mikes do google search and you can find a lot interesting info