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All the articles that appear in Microphone Data have been specially commissioned by Rycote and written by acknowledged experts in their particular field. In terms of format and content they have been allowed as much freedom as they wished - so you will find both great wisdom and refreshing personal opinion amongst their writings.

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All of the following articles are provided as Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. You can download the free Acrobat Reader here

A brief guide for aligning coincident stereo microphone systems (pdf)

Hugh Robjohns

A brief history of microphones (pdf)
- microphones from 1861 to the present day
Hugh Robjohns

Choosing the right microphone (pdf)
- the classification of, and reasons for choosing a particular microphone
Ron Streicher

Engineering the sound of frogs (pdf)
- recording frogs in Denmark takes considerable skill and tenacity
Ronnie Bille

Getting techno-physical (pdf)
- an argument for the need to understand the technical principles of microphones
Jörg Wuttke

How to reduce wind noise and vibration (pdf)

Chris Woolf

Microphone powering (pdf)
- the common powering methods for microphones
Chris Woolf

Microphones, preamps and impedance (pdf)
- a tricky subject
Rob Jones

MMAD - Multichannel microphone array design (pdf)
- extending the concept of stereo recording angles to Surround Sound Recording
Michael Williams

Shields, grounds and microphone cables (pdf)
- the complexities of shielding and balanced cabling explained by one of the acknowledged masters of the subject
Bill Whitlock

Surround sound, yesterday, today and tomorrow (pdf)
- a review of surround techniques from 1881 to the present day
Dave Malham

The feeble phantom (pdf)
- a spirited explanation of the standards behind phantom powering and how to exorcise many of the associated problems
Jörg Wuttke

The interpretation of the microphone data sheets (pdf)
- how to extract some in depth information from behind the data
Michael Williams

The stereophonic zoom (pdf)
- a seminal paper on stereo recording angles and the control of stereophonic images by microphone positioning
Michael Williams


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