The electret microphone works in exactly the same way as any other capacitor microphone, but the permanent charge on its electret diaphragm is enough to produce a retrievable voltage across it.

More budget-friendly microphone options include the AKG P120 and Logitech Blue Yeti. There are two kinds of condenser mics: large and small-diaphragm condensers.

Small-diaphragm condenser microphones are built the same way as large-diaphragm ones, they’re just shaped differently and are narrower.

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Neumann took the old carbon grain microphone that sounded like a telephone and turned it into a mass-produced condenser microphone. Remember the vibrations of that impossibly thin diaphragm?

Condenser microphones typically come in two forms: large or small diaphragm. Whereas large diaphragm condenser microphones are known across the industry for creating a warm sound, the small diaphragm ...

Electret microphones can range in diaphragm size, of course, and large diaphragm models, deemed to be 1 inch or larger, are made. A larger diaphragm allows larger changes in capacitance as sound waves ...

With a so-called ‘dynamic’ microphone (the word ‘dynamic’ means changing or moving), a small coil of wire, positioned within the magnetic field of a permanent magnet, is attached to the diaphragm.

In both cases these are the interesting parts of a condenser microphone, so their circuit bears a second look. The condenser microphone takes a diaphragm and turns it into one side of a capacitor.

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