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Microphone style

The microphone arm of headsets may carry an external microphone or be of the voicetube type.
External microphone designs have the microphone housed in the front end of the microphone
arm. Voicetube designs are also called internal microphone design, and have the microphone
housed near the ear-piece, with a tube carrying sound to the microphone.

Most external microphone designs are of either omnidirectional or noise-canceling type. Noise-
canceling microphone headsets use a bi-directional microphone as elements. A bi-directional
microphone's receptive field has two angles only. Its receptive field is limited to only the front
and the direct opposite back of the microphone. This create an "8" shape field, and this design is
the best method for picking up sound only from a close proximity of the user, while not picking
up most surrounding noises.

Omni-directional microphones pick up the complete 360-degree field, which may include much
extraneous noise.

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