A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or mic is an acoustic to electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal.
Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, tape recorders, hearing aids, motion picture production, live and recorded audio engineering, in radio and television broadcasting and in computers for recording voice, VoIP, and for non-acoustic purposes such as ultrasonic checking.
In the professional studio environment, nothing substitutes for a high quality, professional microphone. While there are microphones that cost as little as $100, professional voice over actors will have as part of their studio, microphones that range in price all the way up to over $2,000.
Computer based, consumer type microphones cannot and do not produce good clean audio that can be used in professional audio production. |