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The loudest band in the world is a subject of some dispute in musical circles. Many bands have claimed to be the loudest, measuring this in various ways including with decibel meters at concerts and by engineering analysis of the CDs on which their albums are published.
In 1957 they introduced the SM 2 microphone, which was essentially a pair of KM 56 microphones in a single body, arranged so that their directional patterns could be controlled remotely. The SM 2 was the world's first stereo microphone.
One or more microphones are placed along the length of the room, and these pick up both the sound from the speaker and its reflections off the walls of the chamber. The farther away from the loudspeaker, the more echo and reverberation the microphone(s) picks up, and the louder the reverberation becomes in relation to the source.
Orfield Labs held the 2005 and 2013 Guinness World Record for the quietest place on Earth. Microsoft ’s anechoic chamber in Redmond, Washington eventually beat Orfield. Orfield retook the record in November 2021 with a sound level of (-)24.9 dbA.
In 1954, TOA Corporation developed the EM-202, the world's first transistorized megaphone. [7] Handheld versions are shaped generally like the old acoustic megaphone, with a microphone at one end and a horn speaker at the other, and a pistol grip on the side, with a trigger switch to turn it on. In use, the device is held up to the mouth, and ...
Neumann U 87 with shock mount. Introduced in 1967 as the solid-state successor to the U 67, [4] [5] [1] Neumann introduced the U 87 alongside the KM 86, KM 84, and KM 83 as part of the company's first 'FET 80' series of microphones that utilized use solid-state FET electronics that didn't require separate power supplies or multi-pin power cables and allowed the mics to be made smaller. [6]
The following is a list of defunct microphone manufacturers with articles. Aiwa; Altec Lansing; American Microphone; Ampex; Astatic; Brush Development Company; Dynaco ...
The microphone's element was positioned relatively far from the grille to keep announcers from getting too loud. An internal polyurethane pop filter helped reduce breathy plosives. [4] In 1986, EV began releasing microphones with rare earth neodymium magnets in the transducer assembly. The RE20 concept was given this new configuration ...