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A Super-Wide-Range Microphone with Cardioid Directivity

This paper describes a super-wide-range microphone with cardioid directivity, which covers the frequency range up to 100 kHz. The authors have successfully developed the omni-directional microphone capable of picking up sounds of up to 100 kHz with low noise. The proposed microphone uses an omni-directional capsule adopted in the omni-directional super-wide-range microphone and a bi-directional capsule which is newly designed to fit the characteristics of the omni-directional one. The output signals of both capsules are synthesized as the output signals to achieve cardioid directivity. The measurement results show that the proposed microphone achieves wide frequency range up to 100 kHz, as well as low noise characteristics and excellent cardioid directivity.

Authors: Ono, Kazuho; Sugimoto, Takehiro; Ando, Akio; Nomura, Tomohiro; Chiba, Yutaka; Imanaga, Keishi
Affiliation: NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories
AES Convention:125 (October 2008) Paper Number:7523 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Acoustic Modeling and Simulation

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