adonis1@nwnexus.WA.COM (Adonis Corporation ) (08/28/90)
What kind of microphone works on the cube? The NeXT Bible says high impedance. I presume monaural. I have tried a high impedance mike with an RCA plug and adaptor to mini plug, but all that produced was white noise. I tried a low impedance (500ohms) cheap Sony with a mini plug, and that got something, but produced a strong background of noise. I can find no mention of a microphone in the documentation. High impedance mikes with mini plugs are quite expensive. Thanks for any clues.
rca@cslab9c.cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (08/28/90)
There is a pretty cheap microphone you can get a Radio Shack. It is black, thin, and is basically a hexagonal aluminum pipe with a little microphone in one end. It works decent although not HI-FI, but it's 8-bit recording only, so it no problem. Otherwise you can still go for the digital Microphone ... Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (08/29/90)
In article <370@nwnexus.WA.COM> adonis1@nwnexus.WA.COM (Adonis Corporation ) writes: >What kind of microphone works on the cube? The NeXT Bible I suggest the RadioShack line of mikes---cheap, and they get the job done. The spiffiest one is a $20 mini-mike with its own stand (matches the cubes black space age look well.) I have a $30 one (full sized, black plastic body and black metal base), and they have one that runs for about $40 that was recommended by a rep from the folks that make Digital Ears. I don't have the specs on me, but these three all have good dynamic range (50-20,000 Hz), look nice, and seem to work well.
mvilla@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Marcelo Villacres) (08/29/90)
In article <370@nwnexus.WA.COM> adonis1@nwnexus.WA.COM (Adonis Corporation ) writes: >What kind of microphone works on the cube? I used a regular cheap microphone that has a 1/8" plug. I was able to record sounds, and also play with monsterscope without any problems. 8=) (=8 8=) (=8 8=) (=8 8=) (=8 8=) (=8 8=) (=8 8=) (=8 8=) (=8 8=) (=8 8=) ____ ___/| | | || | Paint it black! _______ | || | | ___ | |___|| | _____________ | === | \|____| |=============|__ | M/V | // ======| |====== |_______| //======o |_____________| _____________ /_______________\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[=]
azure@portia.Stanford.EDU (Lai Heng Chua) (08/29/90)
vAbout the mikes. I didn't worry about high impedence when I golow frequency mike. Small mike from REALISTIC cost aboutGood for voice mail and short sounds. If you want to have high quality then sure mikes go up quite a bit in price, like a couple thousand too. Problem may be you didn't switch on something or bad cube.
olstad@wn.msc.umn.edu (Ken Olstad) (09/04/90)
In article <292@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: > I suggest the RadioShack line of mikes---cheap, and they get the job done. . . . > have good dynamic range (50-20,000 Hz), look nice, and seem to work well. ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's frequency response.
lwb@pensoft.UUCP (Lance Bledsoe) (09/24/90)
In article <370@nwnexus.WA.COM> adonis1@nwnexus.WA.COM (Adonis Corporation ) writes: >What kind of microphone works on the cube?... RadioShack (Realistic) Tic Clip Microphone ($19.95) cat # 33-1052 is excellent. good luck -lance Lance Bledsoe Off: (512) 343-1111 Pencom Software, Inc. Fax (512) 343-9650 8716 North MoPac #200 UUCP: cs.utexas.edu!pensoft!lwb Austin, Texas 78759 UUNET: uunet!uudell!pensoft!lwb
gk@next.com (Gregg Kellogg) (10/03/90)
The 2.0 release closes this security hole by only allowing processes launched from Loginwindow to access the sound driver. You can't even rlogin to open the driver. There's a facility (called Public Sound Server) that advertises the sound driver using the network name server, allowing complete access to the sound driver across the net, but this is turned off by default. Gregg Kellogg NeXT Operating Systems Group
smb@datran2.uunet (Steven M. Boker) (10/03/90)
In article <253@next.com>, gk@next.com (Gregg Kellogg) writes: > The 2.0 release closes this security hole by only allowing processes > launched from Loginwindow to access the sound driver. You can't even > rlogin to open the driver. Darn! I had great fun "haunting" a friend's machine. Catch him napping at the terminal and sndplay a pastiche of the Twilight Zone and Curly. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Took him a while to catch me since he's in Virginia and I'm in Colorado. Steve. -- #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====# # Steve Boker # Black holes are how God divides by zero. # # smb@datran2.uunet.uu.net # ....I have my own methods. # #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#