Building a quality USB-C microphone

5 Minute crafts: gluing pipe cleaners to a tin can DIY Perks: Here's the 10th free tutorial for a literal market beating product this year

This channel feels like if Leonardo da Vinci had a YouTube channel

I came here expecting to see someone assembling a microphone kit. I did not expect to be taught how to build an entire microphone almost completely from scratch, while learning valuable info about electrical and audio interference and how to mitigate them. This is brilliant.

Pro Tip: Don't cut off the Bulk connector (2:14) leaving this pin floating will definitely worsen sound quality. Instead, connect it to the ground of the circuit. Otherwise the microphone performed is heavily influenced by EMV and room conditions

Can we all just appreciate Matt for a second: he's spent who knows how many man hours researching, designing, and testing all of these builds, and then puts it out there for free when he could easily just sell them. He's not even selling the plans when they do truly belong to him. Matt, you're a super guy and I hope I can learn how to be more generous because of your example.

You can't make everything with brass, Matt. Matt: And I took that personally.

That's actually crazy how the DIY mic is actually kinda on the same level as the 3000 dollar mic. And you could make sound similar if wanted too which is insane. He got my respect and probably everyone in the comments for making this. nice video and super educational.

damn he actually teach us how to build an entire high quality microphone from scratch, while also explaining the reason behind those parts that he used. What a rare gem on youtube nowadays.

This man just allowed people with time on their hands and passion in their hearts to corner an entire market lmao, love this

I used to be a marketing director. We had a "guy" that did all our voice over work cash. We used him for years and the quality was amazing. The radio ingest guys were always complimenting us on finding this guy. When I left the job we went for beers. He confessed that the entire time he was using the onboard mic on his iPhone hung by a coat hanger in his wardrobe. He was literally tweaking the levels in phone with some app, and dropping the wav straight onto our cloud. Didn't even touch a cable.

Dude, if this mic was available without the DIY aspect, I would definitely pick one up. It's a work of art.

I feel like with the right eq you could make those mics sound almost identical. They didn't sound too different to begin with, and with more low frequency and a little less high frequency they may be indescernable to the untrained ear.

This guy really has a keen eye for industrial design, would love a coffee table book with blueprints, schematics, building & product photos.

This is beyond impressive - as a voice actor and microphone enthusiast this is the first project I am interested in actually giving a shot! - Thank you for all your hard work, Matt.

The amount of in depth knowledge you have of components, and what defines the winning characteristics of said components, makes every sentence rich with learnings. Very happy to have found your channel if nothing more than for the motivation to pursue in some diy projects I’ve been putting off. Cheers

I think the diy microphone sounds sharper, whereas the VERY expensive one sounds softer. For different things, one may be more preferable, but I still think paying 100 times less is a very good deal, for a similar quality. Congratulations!

I hope jlielectronics is ready for the traffic. This is a great build

When you said: "And because this is a DIY Perks video..." I thought you were going to say: "We will be water cooling it..."

So, I would say the unprocessed audio from the U87 definitely sounds better, but once they're both processed you could make them sound damn near identical. The DIY mic had pretty much the same level of low end as the U87 but had a lot more presence in the high end, which honestly unprocessed sounds a bit harsh, however it has more sonic information that you can play with in post. With the U87 you'd probably throw a boost on the high end to give it more of the air that the DIY mic already has, and with the DIY I would do some cutting in the high end to make it less shrill. In the end they'd sound pretty much identical though, which is incredibly impressive.

Wow wow wow!!! This is one of the best builds I’ve seen on YouTube. Well done. You should be proud.