Re: Information on contact microphones

[Jason Lescalleet <noises@worldnet.att.net>]

Jesse Kudler wrote:

> I knew that a speaker and a mic were basically the same thing reversed, 
>but
> isn't a contact mic different from a dynamic mic?  Contact mics don't 
>pick
> up sounds, they pick up vibrations.  That's why they have to be touching 
>the
> mic'ed object and why they can't feed back.

don't be so sure about that.  they can feedback, just not as easily.
i don't know how you plan to use them, i just didn't want you to think 
they were
perfect.