You don't have to buy someone else's DIY ribbon microphone plans. Everything you need is either here or on Prodigy-Pro. If you need help, I'll do what I can. And the best part of it is that it is FREE.


This is a site dedicated to the individual building a quality diy ribbon mic. If you guys want to start a message board to aid each other in the process, let me know.

Another update...

The Lundahl transformers are awesome, the Jensens are fantastic, but if you really can't affor it, try this for your ribbon microphone transformer:


http://edcorusa.com/products/transformers/rmx/rmx1.html


A $22.00 transformer. That drops the cost to almost nothing!


I've been busy lately (the past couple of years). Trying to survive and all. Seems there aren't many positions open for someone who has experience in my field.


Updating this site has been a task (or having the time to do so, anyway). Please sign my guest book if you would like, because it would make me feel better...

My most sincere thanks for those who have responded to this site. You have made it worth while to continue... To know I've inspired and helped so many people is truly a joy. I am a real person, and you have made me feel better about the path I have chosen in my life.

Oh, and my name is Nathan Ritter. I'm from somewhere in the middle of Arkansas. There seems to a lot of confusion about this...

If you would be so kind, please email me and tell me if you find the site to be enjoyable or informative. I have actually caught some flak from people who believe I am ruining the secrets of ribbon microphones. Not so much now, but I still get the occasional email...It seems companies caught on to the idea of cheap ribbon mic construction, and went hog wild (I even had one guy who blamed me for THAT!). It still makes me smile when I get an email from a satisfied reader...

And now with the usual introduction...


Welcome to my website. I hope you find some useful information about the construction of (and some of the physics behind) a ribbon microphone. If not from this site, then from the very few links I have found. I will attempt to document the process I went through to construct what I have as much as I can, but time to do so is scarce right now, so please excuse me if this lacks some info.


Please let me know via email if I can provide more precise information, or if you have any questions that I have not addressed in the site itself.

I decided to make a ribbon mic as a project for a Physics of Music class I attended at Middle Tennessee State University, in association with the MTSU Recording Industry program.  The interest in my project has been a little overwhelming, and it came out so well, that I decided to put this up for others to use. 

Just so you know right off the bat, building this microphone was fairly easy, and the results are fantastic,  so it is a worthwhile endeavour for the "do it yourselfer."

 

 

 

 

By the way, Sorry about the really bad photos.  My dig camera really sucks, but I can't afford another one now.