{"id":8665,"date":"2008-07-20T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/20\/the-soldersmoke-microphone\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:05:07","slug":"the-soldersmoke-microphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/20\/the-soldersmoke-microphone\/","title":{"rendered":"The SolderSmoke Microphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010002.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224971495194848146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As promised, here is the infamous SolderSmoke microphone, featuring duct tape, and supported by a Radio Shack &#8220;Third Hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the &#8220;popping on the letter P&#8221; audio filter I made out of a bathroom drain filter, a baby wipe, and duct tape. The previous effort using some foam from an old Walkman headphone is also visible.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh3Kd_F12ofFwXXs9qADdI29QW62jM0CXusqJ07vjCUriYa6QlPTrpbXOHvCV8jorD36qEd-oBoIM_UwYeCPPF0z0dSaHlGll8l9j5vXn8SETjdDExadYeHiEgX4_QhsetVeuXucsCbHHU\/s1600-h\/MicCapOff.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/MicCapOff.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225012634238480706\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjRd4prVkQBjAsLKQ2PzcUwLu3TUwg64L0BPLcSwU9TIOhGycm9iYfF6Hswtuo11I4yW1d165owRj_-RgA1muF1KcVuwpXss-NE82MKoDzHxXhyphenhyphennUS-dAFE8CED_RqFWkcEigdvFypc0T4\/s1600-h\/MicCapOn.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/MicCapOn.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225012807004525250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Kind of appropriate, don&#8217;t ya&#8217; think? I think this simple filter has helped with the audio problem.<br \/>(Let me know what you think.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here is the infamous SolderSmoke microphone, featuring duct tape, and supported by a Radio Shack &#8220;Third Hand.&#8221; Check out the &#8220;popping on the letter P&#8221; audio filter I made out of a bathroom drain filter, a baby wipe, and duct tape. The previous effort using some foam from an old Walkman headphone is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/20\/the-soldersmoke-microphone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The SolderSmoke Microphone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","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=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}