{"id":8420,"date":"2026-09-10T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manaliveaudio.com\/microphones-sound-design\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:50:58","slug":"microphones-sound-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manaliveaudio.com\/en\/microphones-sound-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Our microphones for sound designers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for sounds nobody has in their sound library yet? The simplest way is to record them yourself, with a microphone that hears what a regular mic can't pick up. For sound design, our two microphones complement each other: the hydrophone listens in water, the geophone listens to vibrations in matter. Here are lots of ideas to try, but keep in mind that everyone uses them their own way: your imagination sets the limits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hydrophone and geophone: two microphones for sound design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The hydrophone listens in water. Its piezoelectric capsule, protected by a waterproof acoustic gel, covers 20 Hz to 80 kHz: bubbles, swirls, drops, clinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The geophone, for its part, listens to matter. Built around a seismic sensor, it picks up vibrations from 5 Hz to 5,000 Hz. Placed on a table, on a metal sheet or planted in the ground, it hears bass and impacts in a very different way from a microphone in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both plug in without 48 V phantom power, into any recorder with a mic input, and share most of the accessories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n