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Update as of 07/28/2009
Of course, I've been busy. I apologize for the delay in answering some emails. The
economy has made it a wild ride! I've been doing a lot the past few years, fixing TV's and building guitars and amps,
so I've had my hands full...
This site was built in mid-2003, as a class project for a college course. Please keep in mind that the information
on the site may be oriented for education, but that information is for everyone to use for thier own designs.
Over the past 6 years, I have built a ton of mics Lots of ribbons and condensers. A far cry from the dorm
room that I built my first and second ones in. It is amazing how so much has changed in such a short time. When
I started, there was no information on the internet about building ribbon microphones, and I had to spend time at the library
(GASP!), getting to know Mr. Howard Tremaine. Now, this information is everywhere.
By the way, there are people on the internet selling plans to make your own ribbon microphones for $9.99. I
will tell you that these people bugged the hell out of me for the information that they used to create the PDF that they
sell, and really didn't know what they were doing. It just goes to show that anyone can make a great microphone, and
it is really hard to mess up. So 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.
Overall,
though, this site became more than a project. This site is now a site dedicated to the individual building a quality DIY
ribbon mic from parts that you can do yourself. After many thousands of emails over the years (and more hits
than you would believe), I can say that I feel the "Original DIY Ribbon Mic Site" has done more than what I ever dreamed
it could have.
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...
Now, on with the original website...
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.
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