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Make A LoFi Mic From An Old Telephone Speaker
Make A LoFi Mic From An Old Telephone Speaker
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Step 1: Unscrew the speaker and microphone caps and remove innards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Step 2: Drill out telephone jack hole to make room for 1/4" audio jack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Step 5: Screw the caps back on with a little piece of towel on the speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Author:CuriousInventor.com author's website
A group of electrical and mechanical engineers from Georgia Tech... starting a company to help hobbyists, researchers and anyone else making a prototype
or one-off project...
We hope to make it easier for hobbyists to choose and find useful tools, and will have some kits for sale shortly.
You can hear an audio sample on our blog entry . Made by recompas and friends.
Step 1: Unscrew the speaker and microphone caps and remove innards
The covers simply unscrew. The only part you'll be keeping from the insides is the speaker. Get rid of everything else, including the telephone jack.
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Step 2: Drill out telephone jack hole to make room for 1/4" audio jack.
Enlarge the existing telephone jack hole with a 5/16" drill.
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Step 4: Screw wires to speaker
Some phones will have a resistor across the speaker. Just leave that there.
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Step 5: Screw the caps back on with a little piece of towel on the speaker
To help reduce some air noise, put a little piece of towel underneath the cap that goes over the speaker (the new lo-fi mic). Screw both caps back on and you're done.
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I just picked up an old telephone and intent to make one of these mics. However there are two on instructables as you might know. The other one, by
Randolfo is found here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Telephone-Handset-Microphone/
Now I hear some of you are talking about a preamp. Is this what Randolfo has done? And is that the difference with this one? Or is it essential to get it to
work to add a little voltage on the mic, like with a condenser microphone. I don't understand this very well and I'm new at the whole electronics and diy-
business. So if someone could explain me the difference between the two, I would be very thankfull.
Thanks for the great posts all of you. I really love this site.
cheers,
I have had no problems running mine directly into a PA or a guitar amp. I get full volume, in fact I generally get a lot of feed back.
You're fine without it, but you're probably done by now either way.
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mortyalman says: Feb 14, 2010. 4:51 PM REPLY
gday.
i quite enjoyed doing this project, and was eager for more things like it to do, so i opened up the carcass of an old, non-functioning keyboard under my bed
and hook up its old volume knob to the telephone mic, however, I'm not sure where to conect the wires from the mic to the knob, and from the knob to the
out put.
any ideas?
cheers
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