For those with some experience with pro audio, the term “ribbon microphone” tends to conjure up an image of one of those big, chunky mics from the Golden Age of radio, the kind adorned with ...

But if this digital microphone project is a bit too modern for you, why not try your hand at building a ribbon microphone instead?

The AXBT was the 4th generation design of the original Marconi Type A microphone (X, B and T representing improvements) widely used by the BBC from the early 1930s onwards. The ribbon microphone ...

Laboratory tests have been carried out on one sample of the Shure Model 333 microphone, a small ribbon type instrument claimed to have directional characteristics intermediate between the cardioid ...