Superb, inexpensive microphones built into 12-gauge shotgun shells

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I’ve heard of a shotgun mic but that’s ridiculous :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Or perhaps a boom mic.

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Neat looking. They have some made from larger brass shells too.

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Good mic for shooting your mouth off.

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Then amp it through a mason jar for that full moonshine-country ambiance:

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If you played bottleneck slide using an actual piece of a former bottle, the cycle here would be complete

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While playing on a shovel, because why not?

Although the ammo box guitar is more thematically correct:

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I think this is what you load into the shotgun mic…

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From the headline I was expecting something very different and I was curious what the use case might be.

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I thought police would be able to shoot them at a wall and listen to what the people behind it were talking about.

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The XLR connector on the end of the shell makes me giggle.

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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:

shure-520dx-harmonica-microphone

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 :grinning:

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Just don’t try to board a plane with them.

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You would need to pack it with your instrument in check in. :confused:

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