How to Convert a Speaker into a Dynamic Microphone | Recording, Engineering, and Music Production

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In this video, Berklee Online instructor Loudon Stearns discusses how a speaker can function as a microphone. He explains that a speaker is essentially a reverse dynamic microphone, like an SM57, and that speakers make fantastic kick drum mics. Loudon takes an old speaker from a home theater system and demonstrates how to turn it into a microphone using a soldering iron, an old instrument cable, and a few other tools. Then, he tests the microphone with his interface, showing many different sound effects that can be achieved from the speaker-microphone. This video is from the Berklee Online course Sylvia Massy: Creative Approaches to Recording and Producing Music.

About Loudon Stearns and Sylvia Massy:
Loudon Stearns is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, a course author and instructor at Berklee Online, and an active media-artist. Within the Contemporary Writing and Production department at Berklee College of Music, he prepares students to work as independent composers and producers in a technology-laden music industry. Online, he focuses on the latest electronic music styles and music-technology innovations, showing students how to analyze contemporary styles and use the latest music technology in their own works. Holding a Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production and Bass Performance from Berklee College of Music, and a Master of Fine Arts in Media Art from Emerson College, Loudon pulls from a broad range of skills in the creation of his own multi-media performances that include live music, projection-mapping, dance, visual art and interactivity.

Sylvia Massy is a producer, mixer and engineer, and author, known for making some of the most unconventional recordings in contemporary music. She has recorded Johnny Cash, Prince, Tool, and many others in places that range from regular high-end studios to caves, castles, icebergs, and submarines.

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