Do I Need An Electret Microphone to Record Music?
There are many kinds of electret microphone out there(electret basically means that the microphone has some built in charge and doesn’t need a lot of power to work – usually a battery). They are usually cheaper than a professional microphone like a dpa microphone. Electret microphones are commonly used as camcorder mics, and these microphones can be used for plugging directly into computers, DAT recorders, mini disc etc. Also the new breed of flash recorders like the use the same technology of electret microphones. But for more serious recording you should look to a dynamic or condenser microphone. A typical dynamic microphone is the Shure SM58 Now a dynamic microphone is great for singing and miking up loud sources like guitar speakers but as you can see from the frequency response below, it doesn’t have a flat response and so can’t faithfully reproduce all frequencies and therefore all sounds. So you wouldn’t use a dynamic microphone to record an orchestra or a violin. So if you want
