Weekly Music Thing No. 2 : Inductive Pickup
This week I’ll show you how to make a pick up that will let you eavesdrop on the internal sound-world of electronic devices.
The inductive pickup is simply a coil of wire, really that’s all there is to it. Connect that to an amplifier and begin probing your: Laptop, mobile phone, local transport network (London underground tube trains sound amazing!)
As last week, a video follows….
NEXT WEEK: either ‘How to make really good contact mics’ or ‘Messing about with CMOS chips to make a horrid noise” or something altogether different, you decide!
9 Comments to Weekly Music Thing No. 2 : Inductive Pickup
Awesome!
PedroSeptember 13, 2011
I would love to hear more about contact mics!
best,
Pedro
Another vote for contact mics!
This video is very cool – thanks!
StevenOctober 8, 2011
Thanks John! would like to see more Music Things, great stuff.
October 30, 2011
[...] making this video I received an email asking if I’d make a couple of pickups for a gentleman in [...]
ThomasNovember 22, 2011
Another fantastic video, never realized how easy they are to make!
Would really appreciate if you could do a tutorial on good contact mics as I’ve been struggling to get a good sound out of these little buggers without using a pre-amp (the one mentioned in the hydrophone tutorial).. There must be a simpler way?
amundsenDecember 3, 2011
Fantastic !
For “next” week I’d love to read a tutorial to build a really good contact mic…
Sure, next one will be about making cheap but excellent contact pickups!
June 4, 2012
[...] pour finir un live des Feeelings, avec leur set electromenager repiquer par des micro bobines DIY (à inductions) dont voici un extrait video [...]
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