{"id":3418,"date":"2011-08-25T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/25\/homebrew-microphone-using-cream-of-tartar-not-tartar-sauce\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:25:11","slug":"homebrew-microphone-using-cream-of-tartar-not-tartar-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/25\/homebrew-microphone-using-cream-of-tartar-not-tartar-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Microphone Using Cream of Tartar (NOT Tartar Sauce)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/crystaltestrig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/crystaltestrig.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644758842757213874\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" >Podcast listeners will recall that this year&#8217;s April 1 edition featured a story about my (supposed) efforts to cure long-standing audio problems by &#8220;chemically tailoring&#8221; home-made microphone elements. I asked for listener suggestions on which kitchen ingredients I should add to the mix. Very few listeners fell for it. But now &#8212; as often happens &#8212; somebody out there has completed the project that we were using as our annual hoax. Check it out. Very interesting: <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/leafcutterjohn.com\/?p=1518\">http:\/\/leafcutterjohn.com\/?p=1518<\/a> <br \/>And I think he has a follow-up post. <\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcast listeners will recall that this year&#8217;s April 1 edition featured a story about my (supposed) efforts to cure long-standing audio problems by &#8220;chemically tailoring&#8221; home-made microphone elements. I asked for listener suggestions on which kitchen ingredients I should add to the mix. Very few listeners fell for it. But now &#8212; as often happens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/25\/homebrew-microphone-using-cream-of-tartar-not-tartar-sauce\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Microphone Using Cream of Tartar (NOT Tartar Sauce)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-1","category-microphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}