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Jul 30, 2023 - 12:37 PM
A USB microphone may feature the same condenser elements as a non-USB microphone, but with the ability to plug directly into the USB port on your computer. This saves you the hassle of needing to purchase additional audio equipment to make an audio recording.
Explanation: A microphone is a transducer. It gathers a sound wave from the air and converts it to an , analog electrical signal. Computers are capable of making very high quality recordings from microphones, but computers are digital devices, not analog, so the signal from the microphone must be converted from analog to digital before the computer can record it. This is accomplished by a device called and analog to digital (A to D) converter. The A to D converter is often part of a computer "sound card". A computer sound card can either be built into the computer or part of a separate, external sound card that plugs into the USB port of a computer. When you plug a microphone into the USB sound card, the A to D converter in the sound card converts the analog microphone signal to a digital signal. In many cases, the microphone level signal is also amplified (increased in strength) to line level by a microphone preamplifier, resulting in a digital live level audio signal - ready to be digitally recorded by the computer.
To make a microphone a USB microphone, the manufacturer build a sound card into the microphone, so that the sound wave pickup, microphone amplification and analog to digital conversion is all done within the USB microphone. The connection to the computer is through a USB cable as the audio has been digitized inside the microphone's built-in sound card and is ready for the computer.
Examples of high quality USB microphone are: SP-USB-MIC-ULTIMATE, SP-USB-MIC-MODEL-7, SP-USB-MIC-MODEL-6-PLUS, SP-USB-MIC-MODEL-6, SP-USB-MIC-MODEL-8
Explanation: A microphone is a transducer. It gathers a sound wave from the air and converts it to an , analog electrical signal. Computers are capable of making very high quality recordings from microphones, but computers are digital devices, not analog, so the signal from the microphone must be converted from analog to digital before the computer can record it. This is accomplished by a device called and analog to digital (A to D) converter. The A to D converter is often part of a computer "sound card". A computer sound card can either be built into the computer or part of a separate, external sound card that plugs into the USB port of a computer. When you plug a microphone into the USB sound card, the A to D converter in the sound card converts the analog microphone signal to a digital signal. In many cases, the microphone level signal is also amplified (increased in strength) to line level by a microphone preamplifier, resulting in a digital live level audio signal - ready to be digitally recorded by the computer.
To make a microphone a USB microphone, the manufacturer build a sound card into the microphone, so that the sound wave pickup, microphone amplification and analog to digital conversion is all done within the USB microphone. The connection to the computer is through a USB cable as the audio has been digitized inside the microphone's built-in sound card and is ready for the computer.
Examples of high quality USB microphone are: SP-USB-MIC-ULTIMATE, SP-USB-MIC-MODEL-7, SP-USB-MIC-MODEL-6-PLUS, SP-USB-MIC-MODEL-6, SP-USB-MIC-MODEL-8