Originally published at: Superb, inexpensive microphones built into 12-gauge shotgun shells | Boing Boing
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I’ve heard of a shotgun mic but that’s ridiculous
Or perhaps a boom mic.
Neat looking. They have some made from larger brass shells too.
Good mic for shooting your mouth off.
Then amp it through a mason jar for that full moonshine-country ambiance:
If you played bottleneck slide using an actual piece of a former bottle, the cycle here would be complete
While playing on a shovel, because why not?
Although the ammo box guitar is more thematically correct:
I think this is what you load into the shotgun mic…
From the headline I was expecting something very different and I was curious what the use case might be.
I thought police would be able to shoot them at a wall and listen to what the people behind it were talking about.
The XLR connector on the end of the shell makes me giggle.
Sorry for being ‘that guy’ but, yep, that’s where a bottle neck slide originated from and I gather the cartridge mic is riffing on the shure “green bullet” mic:
On further interwebbing it would seem that the shotgun mic’s precursor was the machine gun mic:
https://digilab.libs.uga.edu/scl/exhibits/show/steel_vintage_mics/inventive_shapes
I believe the photos were taken with a Canon
Just don’t try to board a plane with them.
You would need to pack it with your instrument in check in.
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