Fancy Feast® Crystal Microphone — from a can of cat food!
Can a can of cat food work as a microphone? Yes, if you work it right! Watch this “Silly, Silly Tape Recorder” how-to video and learn! ************ Sponsored by “Symphonia Felina” neoclassical music album for cat lovers. Original Music Inspired by the Love of a Cat! Available on cassette, CD and MP3 direct download. Visit the Symphonia Felina Web Site at: www.clydesight.com *********** For HI-RES (helps to see the details), STOP this video, and click here: www.youtube.com ************ Many vintage tape recorders require a crystal microphone. But these microphones are often lost. And just try to find one on E-Bay! You either won’t find the one you need for your vintage tape recorder, or it will be priced through the roof! ClydeSight Productions to the rescue – thanks to our cats! Now, you can BUILD your own crystal microphone with vintage sound, easily, using a crystal microphone element, and a can of Fancy Feast® cat food! Why a can of Fancy Feast® cat food? It is JUST the right size to make a nice case for the crystal microphone element! It’s easy to make, you just need some foam, a can of Fancy Feast® cat food, some tools and the crystal microphone element. You’ll feed your cat and build a vintage sounding microphone! The element is much less expensive than an historic vintage crystal microphone, yet provides the right impedance and sound for your vintage tape recorder. You can get an element on E-Bay from a vendor named: audio-comm. Below is a direct URL to his items …
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thanks for the video!you are so ingenious!i didn’t know that you can make a mic from cat food can!5 STARS!
and it sound good too!
Wow! How clever was that.Eddie and Gertrude are real stars. A unique, enjoyable and brilliant video. Well done!
I hear a good crystal mic is great for recording acoustic guitar. But high impedence can be suseptical to hum, and many modern PA amps use LOW Z. Guitar amps and mag phono are HIGH Z like the old RtR recorders.
Thanks for the info! I’ve tested this crystal element (I got two of them) with a Webcor RtR (big old clunker from 1950′s) and it works very well. The original mike element turned to ASHES (how could THAT happen?) so I had to replace it.
This project works very well with little crappy rim drive machines from the 1960′s that like crystal mikes. Often these machines don’t have their mikes any more. Dynamic mikes sound muffled on these machines.
Pretty neat, it almost puts my cardboard one I made to shame. I didn’t know crystal elements were still available. Gertrude burping at the end as funny.
MEOW!!! MEOW!!! Kitty and the Cat! That was a really nice project you did, it looks really cool! I’ve got some Fancy Feasts at home, but rarely does my mom use them for the cat, we normally feed Wampus III dry brown “X” shaped food. Now would a piezo one work on this project good? Cause I have some piezo types like CoolDudeClem used. Did you crystal mic have a metal diaphragm?
OH! I’ve gotta see a video of your 1950s Webcor!!
I don’t know. I haven’t got any piezo types of mics. The crytal mics do have metal diaphragms.
Wow eddie is a biiiiig boy!
he must weigh about 15 pounds^^ that microphone is really cool and vintage sounding!
Thanks! You guessed right, Eddie is 15 pounds, so I guess we wouldn’t call him exactly “portable”. He likes his food, he likes his sister’s food, he likes MY food. Hmmmm…. I think I see a pattern emerging here…. must check that out in more detail.
That is so cool.How did you think of that?
Thanks! I bought a “two pack” of crystal mike elements from E-Bay. I used one in an old Webcor tape recorder to replace the one that was in there and had fried (it turned to ashes) and I had this one left over. Then I was feeding the cat and thought, hmmm, that can looks like it might be just the right size for a microphone. So, it’s all my cats fault.
YOUR CAT IS SO CUTE! AND FRIGGIN HUGE!
i made one and its awesome thanks a lot and ill reply to your vid with a response asap in the mean time read this comment
@funnyman540
Thanks, let me know when you post your video, I’d like to see what you develop!
@andrewenson
Thanks, Eddie is a big cat. He could probably play football!