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DIY USB Microphone Showdown: MEMS vs Electret vs Dynamic!

We've made a wireless video - so why not build a wired one! Thanks to www.PCBWay.com/?from=atomic for supporting the channel.
I'm going to see if I can beat my shop bought USB microphone with a home made one. I've got three microphones to try out, an ICS43434 MEMS microphone, an Electret microphone and a Dynamic Microphone.
We'll be using a Teensy to do the USB interfacing. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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  • @james2396
    @james23963 жыл бұрын

    I love how you told us what sections were recorded on what mics, they all sound mostly pretty similar

  • @atomic14

    @atomic14

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, I was surprised at how good they actually are.

  • @avejst
    @avejst3 жыл бұрын

    great test 👍 great video too 😀 thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀

  • @raguaviva
    @raguaviva3 жыл бұрын

    wow, your videos are getting better and better!

  • @atomic14

    @atomic14

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @MurphyTheOldMan
    @MurphyTheOldMan Жыл бұрын

    very informative.. like it

  • @smearumi
    @smearumi2 жыл бұрын

    great project! is it possible to build microphone array with INMP441 I2S microphones and esp32/esp8266?

  • @TheTurmanDreams
    @TheTurmanDreams3 жыл бұрын

    Great!!!

  • @PokeAmp
    @PokeAmp Жыл бұрын

    i would have liked to see the wireing dowe on those

  • @JesTheii
    @JesTheii Жыл бұрын

    very impressive work sir! I got a microphone recently with heavy white noise, is there a way to diagnose if this is normal or not? is oscilloscope required?

  • @DustinWatts
    @DustinWatts3 жыл бұрын

    The biggest difference imho between the three DIY mics and the shop bought mic is the lack of low end which make the sound "thin". I think this is partly caused by the pickup patterns of the microphones and due to the lack of a body around the microphones. One other thing to note is that a larger capsule is usually more sensitive. Downside is more noise, but the upside is more detail, in this case in your voice.

  • @atomic14

    @atomic14

    3 жыл бұрын

    Definitely my impression as well, the DIY mics all sound a bit lacking. Quite tempting to desolder the larger microphone and try it with the MAX9814 to see how much heavy lifting the ALC4042 is doing - but I don't really want to destroy my microphone just yet.

  • @aarriikknn33ll
    @aarriikknn33ll3 жыл бұрын

    Hey, that's me! Once again, great video with so much information!

  • @atomic14

    @atomic14

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fame at last! - though I'm not sure if the number of viewers really puts us in the famous category :)

  • @aarriikknn33ll

    @aarriikknn33ll

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@atomic14 Unfortunantly not 😪 More people are interested in things like gaming etc.. 🤷‍♂️

  • @ciekaweurzadzenia
    @ciekaweurzadzenia2 жыл бұрын

    Can you provide the PCB schematic?

  • @JR-lx8nn
    @JR-lx8nn2 жыл бұрын

    Nice video. I suspect it is possible the lack of higher frequency output on the analog microphones could be ... um ... ahem ... the other microphones produce more self-noise manifesting high frequency noise - hiss. The analog items are, perhaps, just a bit more quiet up there. And that could be a good thing. um ... maybe ... I think. Anyway, just saying that is a possibility. Thanks for the video. Nicely done and well scripted. JR

  • @itsshuler
    @itsshuler22 күн бұрын

    Mine was a usb microphone. The square house shaped plug broke but it has a 4 pin plug to the motherboard. I wired it a thousand different ways. It don't makensense

  • @VIPINSAINI_20
    @VIPINSAINI_209 ай бұрын

    last 2 sounds better to me at least

  • @stepaciej
    @stepaciej Жыл бұрын

    Hi. I am working on a project where I use PCM1808. Can you please provide some schematics how you connect this module and some sample of code with configuration?

  • @Pre.C_King
    @Pre.C_King Жыл бұрын

    Wouldnt it be possible to use a External Sound card/Board to make a USB mic out of an E Condenser Capsule? Seeing as the sound interface is already there, there's input for Mic aswell as output for headset. Im thinking along the lines of soldering the power to the feed of the board, desoldering the mic jack and soldering the mic's "data" wire to where the jack was etc etc. This is all theory in my head atm, but it feels like it would be a straight forward procedure and these usb cards can be found for around 5$ US (Which is a really cheap alternative )

  • @electronash
    @electronash3 жыл бұрын

    Dynamic mic definitely sounded the best, IMO. (both the shop-bought and Dynamic mics had a tiny bit of clipping during the second "testing" word spoken. Seemed like a bit of clipping/clicking as well when you were doing the voiceover in the last section?) The ICS sounded quite thin / hollow in comparison, but not too bad. The Electret probably sounded a bit worse overall, with some frequencies being limited, almost like a slight notch filter? The Electret seemed to have a slightly asymmetrical waveform, maybe due to the way the mic needs to be biased? Having said that, until you pointed out you'd used a different mic for each section of the vid, I wouldn't have said any of them were terrible. lol

  • @atomic14

    @atomic14

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I noticed that on the electret as well, maybe the bias voltage was too low? Definitely intriguing. From what I read you really need to tune the amplifiers to the microphone to get really good results. I guess that every microphone has a particular frequency response that you need to compensate for.

  • @EdwinErdiyana
    @EdwinErdiyana3 жыл бұрын

    I want to buy ICS 43434 I2S Microphone Breakout Board, but where?😭

  • @EdwinErdiyana

    @EdwinErdiyana

    3 жыл бұрын

    Please, send me link for buying that.😭

  • @Serjaru
    @Serjaru6 ай бұрын

    do esp32!

  • @NamasenITN
    @NamasenITN Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video and pace! I would love to programmatically generate a sinusoidal waveform (and bypass the A/D conversion and the microphones). Are all Teensy capable of acting as USB sound input sources?

  • @bhrigudas2897
    @bhrigudas28972 жыл бұрын

    I need your help

  • @TheEmbeddedHobbyist
    @TheEmbeddedHobbyist3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds great, how if you could just............ Sorry battery died in my keyboard ;-)

  • @atomic14

    @atomic14

    3 жыл бұрын

    :)