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Modeling of Leaky Acoustic Tube for Narrow-Angle Directional Microphone

Authors: Ando, Akio; Chiba, Yutaka; Hamasaki, Kimio; Imanaga, Keishi; Ishii, Takeshi; Ono, Kazuho; Sugimoto, Takehiro

AES Convention 129 · Paper 8216 · November 2010

Abstract

Line microphones have been popular as narrow directional microphones for a long time. Their structure adopts a leaky acoustical tube with many slits to suppress off-axis sensitivity, together with a directional capsule attached to this tube. Although many microphones of this type are on the market, we have no quantitative theory to explain its behavior, which is very important for effectively designing directivity. We thus modeled the leaky acoustical tube using a distributed equivalent circuit and combined it with the directional capsule’s equivalent circuit model. The analysis showed that the model agreed well with the measurement results, particularly at the directional characteristics, while an ordinary model of acoustical tube using delay and sum modeling did not.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 129
AES Convention
129
Paper number
8216
Publication date
November 6, 2010
Session subject
Acoustical and Physical Modeling
Affiliation
NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Kinuta Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Sanken Microphone Co. Ltd., Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper