To pull it off, you'll need an IKEA TERTIAL lamp and a microphone mount (a Proel APM 225 but you can also build your own shockmount, too). All you have to do is remove the bulb and head of the ...

Unfortunately, decent articulating mic stands can be expensive. But, if you’re close enough to an IKEA store to buy an IKEA TERTIAL lamp, then you can make your own. It’s as easy as removing ...

Australian grad student Scott Mitchell turned a (pedigreed, as it turns out) sixties desk lamp into a parabolic microphone, a la Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation.” If that movie ...

The circuit is very fast; there's almost no lag between your whistle and the lamp's reaction. On top of the control tower is a knob that lets you adjust the microphone's sensitivity---it needs to ...

In contrast, the Litra Beam can be aligned neatly with the top of a monitor or pointed down at a desk to act as a traditional desk lamp when you ... a new XLR microphone: the $349.99 Blue ...

A suitably lightbulb moment followed and the Anglepoise lamp was born. I only mention it because every studio microphone arm that I’ve ever used works on the same principle. A clever arrangement ...