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offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-03-13 18:56 [#01531921]
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Anybody ever used one of these and have good results? I am
hoping to get a bunch of different pieces of metal, and
hitting them against eachother with one of these attached to
get interesting results, although I really don't know much
about using one.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-13 18:59 [#01531924]
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Sounds like it will be fun! The options are endless when it
comes to sound.

I eagerly await the day you spam us. I am very curious to
hear the results


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-03-13 19:13 [#01531941]
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yeah,contact mics are pretty nice... i've been mucking
around with one for about a half a year, unfortunately it's
not super responsive cause the contact board is sort of
thick plastic... i need to order me a couple of nice ones...



 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-13 19:15 [#01531943]
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where do you buy these from?


 

offline sean qunt from BELFAST on 2005-03-13 19:18 [#01531946]
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never heard of these, i usually just mess about with a crap
one, whats the difference exactly?


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-13 19:28 [#01531957]
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If anyone could provide some links with sites that have such
products and ones a good prices i would be greatful!

I will search a bit later!


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-03-13 19:40 [#01531970]
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Contact microphones are actually fairly reasonable in price.
At least for the kind I have. You can to buy one in the
classical department of any music store. They use them to
connect to instruments like flutes, saxiphones, etc to get a
proper sound for studio recording and tuning. They look just
like a clip, with a wire comming off of them.

Mine is a pretty cheap model too. I want to get a nice one.
Matmos used one when they were playing with bjork, and what
they did was connect it to a birdcage, and then use a violin
bow on the birdcage, and played it like a violin. It
eventually had a bunch of water spilt on it, and it was
ruined. They were all pissed off, cause they bought it with
the money bjork paid them, and they will probly never have
access to such an expensive and responsive contact
microphone again.

Regular contact microphones cost around ten dollars though.
You can get high quality contact mics from music stores
through ebay, and such.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-13 19:46 [#01531982]
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matmos is cool.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-13 19:46 [#01531983]
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Cool! Thanks. There are a couple of real good music stores
around here. I'll look into this


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-03-13 19:55 [#01531997]
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They also market them as tuning microphones, sometimes you
have to describe them to the music store employee, cause
they might not know what you are talking about when you call
it a contact microphone. The employees at the store that I
bought mine from didn't.


 


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