Summary of Building a quality USB-C microphone

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This person demonstrates how to build a high-quality USB-C microphone that is cheaper than more expensive professional models. The microphone is made from a short brass tube, a threaded wire, and a homemade bracket. The final product sounds good and is affordable to build.

• 00:00:00 In this video, the speaker explains how to build a quality USB-C microphone, which features a premium sound quality that can compete against professional-grade microphones that cost literally 30 times as much. The microphone design is more of an art than a science, and professional models can often cost thousands of dollars. However, cheap microphones are readily available in the devices we use every day, but their sound quality leaves a lot to be desired. One solution to this is to use some thin enameled copper wire to make a custom cable, which will block vibrations from traveling down its length due to its extremely low mass. After making sure that the wires are connected properly, the microphone's polarity needs to be marked, and heat shrink protecting all of the joints is applied.
• 00:05:00 This person builds a quality USB-C microphone using brass wire mesh and a thin brush strip. The mesh can be shaped by hammering a cylinder or dowel down on top, and the grilles can be joined together with a thin brush strip made into a ring that the grilles can fit into. The reason brass is chosen is because it is beautiful and can be soldered. The microphone needs a support arm and hinged bottom, and the arm and hinge can be made from brass rods and brass tubes.
• 00:10:00 This project builds a quality USB-C microphone that uses minimal components. The main arm can be slid down on top of these like a sleeve and held in place with some more screws, and just like that we have a fully articulating arm and cradle system. The preamp and usb interface is built from scratch using minimal components, and the audio cable and power cable are plugged in. The last thing to do is make the rest of the case for which i'll be going back to using brass and bending it to shape. This shell can be capped off with one final piece of wood using some brass mesh to add some interference shielding.
• 00:15:00 This 1-minute video walks viewers through the steps necessary to make a quality USB-C microphone. The microphone is made from a short brass tube, a threaded wire, and a homemade bracket. The final product sounds good and is affordable to build.
• 00:20:00 This video shows how to build a high-quality USB-C microphone, which is capable of producing better sound than more expensive microphones. The microphone used in the demonstration is a Neumann U87 Ai, which is 100 times more expensive than the microphone used in this demonstration. However, despite the price difference, the diy microphone produces the same sound quality as the more expensive microphone.