A prototype of a shotgun microphone having higher directivity than a conventional microphone has been developed to capture target sounds clearly. The shotgun microphone has a structure in which an acoustic tube is attached on a directional microphone capsule. The directivity pattern is formed by adjusting an acoustic resistor attached to orifices along the length of the tube. The prototype we developed has a 1-m long acoustic tube designed on the basis of a numerical calculation. It also includes additional microphone capsules and a digital signal processing circuit that reduce undesired acoustical signals arriving from directions other than the front. Measurements show that the developed shotgun microphone prototype achieves even higher directivity than conventional shotgun microphones.

Authors: Sasaki, Yo; Ono, Kazuho
Affiliation: NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
AES Convention: 145 (October 2018) Paper Number: 10097
Publication Date: October 7, 2018 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Transducers—Part 3
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