{"id":7249,"date":"2018-03-07T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/homebrew-your-own-electret-microphones\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:37:30","slug":"homebrew-your-own-electret-microphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/homebrew-your-own-electret-microphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Your Own Electret Microphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Electret.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"349\" data-original-width=\"525\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Electret.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>Don&#8217;t be such a microphone appliance operator. Whip up some of your own electret material and turn it into a mic. Imagine how the audio adjustment guys will react when you tell them you are using a special, tailor-made, homebrew electret material that gives added PRESENCE and BRIGHTNESS and SPARKLE. Wow. Minds will be blown. A cottage industry could be launched. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b><b>I realize that I tried to fool you guys with a bogus story about making your own Rochelle Salt mics using Tartar sauce. But on this one, I&#8217;m not kidding. Check out Hack-A-Day&#8217;s excellent article: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/03\/07\/a-bit-more-than-a-microphone-the-electret-story\/\"><b>https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/03\/07\/a-bit-more-than-a-microphone-the-electret-story\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t be such a microphone appliance operator. Whip up some of your own electret material and turn it into a mic. Imagine how the audio adjustment guys will react when you tell them you are using a special, tailor-made, homebrew electret material that gives added PRESENCE and BRIGHTNESS and SPARKLE. Wow. Minds will be blown. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/homebrew-your-own-electret-microphones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Your Own Electret Microphones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249","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=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7251,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions\/7251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}