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Microphone DB Stats

  • 538 mic profiles
  • representing 59 manufacturers
  • 13 microphone profiles created/updated in past week

Help Wanted!

From the “biting off more than I can chew” department…

I want to build a database of every microphone ever made.

I’ll start with the mics available today, but I won’t stop until I have the rest of them too, because every once in a while an old beyerdynamic M380 pops up on Ebay and there’s just about nowhere else to find out what they do besides right here.

Picture someone shopping for a pair of drum overheads, or a killer acoustic guitar mic… wouldn’t it be great to do a quick search and see the specs for every appropriate mic on the market?

This is totally within reach. I just need some help getting the data into the system. The infrastructure is already done (and upgrades are on the way).

If you’d like to adopt your favorite mic manufacturer, or even just update the profile of your favorite mic, please get in touch via the comment form below. I have some prizes to award early contributors. And besides, you’ve already read Gearslutz today anyway, eh? :)

4 Responses to “Help Wanted!”

  1. Martin

    September 25th, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Contrary to the information on this site, the NT2-A does not have a battery compartment. Just spotted that little error there :)

  2. matthew mcglynn

    September 25th, 2008 at 9:18 am

    Martin - thank you! I’ve fixed the NT2-A profile.

  3. ~Jon~

    September 30th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    you’re doing a great job here!
    1 thing I’ve found so far is on the page for the AT-3035 you’ve got the max SPL at 12dB! 12dB is the self noise, max SPL should be 144

  4. matthew mcglynn

    September 30th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

    Jon, thank you. The AT3035 page has been overhauled. BTW, the AudioGeekZine site looks cool; I’ll be checking it out!

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