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Zither and homemade contact mic

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January 11th, 2015

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Me playing a ‘lick’ on my 1970s ‘Zippy Zither’ to demonstrate my homemade contact microphone. The microphone is to this design: http://www.instructables.com/id/Balanced-piezo-contact-microphones/ made out of two piezo transducers and a standard XLR cable.

Quite impressed with the noise floor. The zither actually does sound that thin and un-bassy by itself so it isn’t the best test of the frequency range. Still, not bad for something built for under £5.

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acoustic
contact-microphone
folk
homemade
koto
pluck
plucked
psaltery
string
zither

Type

Flac (.flac)

Duration

0:15.266

File size

908.4 KB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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AdrianLanders

1 year, 3 months ago

Thank you. Great sound. I can use this 👏👏👏

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