Hi,

does anybody know how to transform a phone in a voice mic?
I think it's that kind of stuff that John Dwyer from Pink And Brown (and a lot of other great bands) and Brian Chippendale from Lightning Bolt use.

Or what mic could be good to have that kind of distorted-crappy-fuzzy sound for the voice?

sorry about my lame english writing, and congratulations to the members of Shellac for their great show in Strasbourg in May.

Walkman headset transducers work, too. so do old CB's. Just test wiring connections until you get sound.

hey pi,

try here:
http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9937

there's a bit more elsewhere in the tech room if you search around, for sure.

You might also want to tape a cheap walkie talkie to a microphone and sing into the other walkie talkie. works like a charm. the Shure bullet mics (for harmonica, they're green) have been pretty popular, too.


gluck!

thanks, can you just tell me what is CB's?

anyway, I'll try with shitty walkmanheadset.

pi wrote:what is CB's?

this...I guess. you can get these mics very cheap at the flea market. change the connector to jack and run it through a guitar distortion.

Not sure about Europe, but in the US, old telephones used carbon capsule microphone elements before switching over to electret mics shortly after touchtone phones came out. The catch with carbon capsules is that they change resistance in response to spl, they don't produce a current like dynamics, so you need a power supply to get anything out of it. I built two out of a few AA batteries and a pot wired up like a voltage divider. It was a little out of control (self oscillation), but it has a pretty interesting distortion sound, distinct from the headphone as mic thing. I wouldn't go plugging it into any priceless mic pre's, but it hasn't killed my guitar amp (yet). Some googling while I was trying to make this thing turned up a 27 page military specification (from 1954) for carbon microphone elements. http://www.dscc.dla.mil/Programs/MilSpec/ListDocs.asp?BasicDoc=MIL-M-13189

Page 17 has a circuit that looks more stable than the one I eventually came up with, but hey, Conrad Uno likes* it.


Or you could get the $15 danelectro Fish + Chips pedal and call it a day.


*he prolly threw it out right after we left.

There are step-by-step instructions on how to do exactly what you ask on the Negativland LP/CD The Weatherman, originally a cassette only release on SeeLand Media Media.

ubercat wrote:There are step-by-step instructions on how to do exactly what you ask on the Negativland LP/CD The Weatherman, originally a cassette only release on SeeLand Media Media.

is it possible to scan this and to post this as an image here?

there's really little chances i'll ever got, or even see, this cassette.

i still thanks you about all of these advices. I'll look forward for a CB mic (which is really cheap stuff, that's nice).

pi wrote:

ubercat wrote:There are step-by-step instructions on how to do exactly what you ask on the Negativland LP/CD The Weatherman, originally a cassette only release on SeeLand Media Media.

is it possible to scan this and to post this as an image here?

Audio directions.