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Shotgun Microphone with High Directivity by Extra-Long Acoustic Tube and Digital Noise Reduction

Authors: Sasaki, Yo; Ono, Kazuho

AES Convention 145 · Paper 10097 · October 2018

Abstract

A prototype of a shotgun microphone having higher directivity than a conventional microphone has been developed to capture target sounds clearly. The shotgun microphone has a structure in which an acoustic tube is attached on a directional microphone capsule. The directivity pattern is formed by adjusting an acoustic resistor attached to orifices along the length of the tube. The prototype we developed has a 1-m long acoustic tube designed on the basis of a numerical calculation. It also includes additional microphone capsules and a digital signal processing circuit that reduce undesired acoustical signals arriving from directions other than the front. Measurements show that the developed shotgun microphone prototype achieves even higher directivity than conventional shotgun microphones.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 145
AES Convention
145
Paper number
10097
Publication date
October 6, 2018
Session subject
Transducers—Part 3
Affiliation
NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper