Topic: 12 Gauge Microphones

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

 

http://www.12gaugemicrophones.com/

[darby]

basically plastic cases for bodies
I wonder if they're shotguns ...the only thing I can say is why?

[Patrick]

You can throw a Panasonic omni capsule in any housing you want and it works very well.  I had a friend that installed the capsules on the "tip" of a regular xlr connector.  They aren't good on everything, but they shine on acoustic instruments and make a fantastic room mic.  You can make a pair of them for less than $40 easily.  Dirt cheap and a fun little project.

Hats off to these guys for being inventive!

[rastasean]

wouldn't it be best if the mics were mounted a little farther away, not like its illustrated in the photo?

[gkatz]

reminds me of the Karma K-Micro silver bullets, small omnis that work well on some instruments, drums.

12 guage = 70 a pair plus shipping?
Karma's = 30 a pair plus shipping

http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-Micro-Matched-Pair.html

someone should order these

[H₂O]

I bet you couldn't get thse past TSA - Good luck traveling onboard with these.

[Hypnocracy]

These would be perfect Microphones for Junior Walker and the All Stars...If we can get them into heaven...

[mr qpl]

or, of course, Kurt Cobain

[H₂O]

 I wonder if they will come out with an LD version built out of a snuff can.

[dlh]

basically plastic cases for bodies
I wonder if they're shotguns ...the only thing I can say is why?

There's an image!
Imagine a shotgun mic as the barrel of a shotgun.
That'd get the attention of anyone it was pointed at.

[F.O.Bean]

I bet Naiant omnis are better than these, altho quite a neat lil project nevertheless

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

I always thought the coresound CSBs were stuffed into a .25 ACP casing.

[Church-Audio]

It just goes to show you many people think they can stuff a capsule into anything and it will sound good. LOL that is not the case if it was Neumann would have a 12Ga and 10Ga mic....

[Bradley802]

Hey folks! I noticed there was some chatter about my mics!

I was originally creating my little mics out of necessity for my own use. I threw them up on the low-end-theory forum of gearslutz to show off my shotgun shell design and started getting so many orders I put up a website to handle those orders. I've tried not to portray them as a high-end microphone, they are after-all $35, or myself as a master microphone engineer.

I appreciate ALL opinions and criticism and hope buyers enjoy them for what they are, Electret mics that look like a shotgun shell!

Thanks!
Brad Martin

[Church-Audio]

Hey folks! I noticed there was some chatter about my mics!

I was originally creating my little mics out of necessity for my own use. I threw them up on the low-end-theory forum of gearslutz to show off my shotgun shell design and started getting so many orders I put up a website to handle those orders. I've tried not to portray them as a high-end microphone, they are after-all $35, or myself as a master microphone engineer.

I appreciate ALL opinions and criticism and hope buyers enjoy them for what they are, Electret mics that look like a shotgun shell!

Thanks!
Brad Martin

Go to http://www.ksmetals.com/ this is where I get all my brass tube for building mics.. I think its cool that you wanted to build a mic into a shotgun shell but if you ever get serious then you should take at look at K&S.