spcmic - Welcome!

We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to our stock.

A spcmic!

It is surprisingly small in size. It measures about 17 cm in diameter. That's roughly the size of a regular saucer.
Despite its unassuming appearance, it is incredibly versatile. It can handle a wide range of recording situations, and you can adjust a lot of settings even in post-production thanks to the additional beamforming software. It's just amazing!
We're currently on a pretty steep learning curve, but we're having a great blast. We’re constantly amazed by the sound quality delivered by the MEMS "microphones" and we're letting go of a few preconceptions along the way.

However, the most astonishing tool is the mobile app that allows you to record with your spcmic. You heard right!
There is an app (https://spcmic.com/app/) that you can download to your mobile for free. Then you just need to connect the spcmic via a regular USB cable, start the app and press record! It records sounds in the first to fifth order of Ambisonics and in 'raw' format up to 96 kHz. Although the app is still in beta, it works very well for us.

Have you ever seen anything like this before? Imagine holding a 'saucer' in your hand while walking around and recording in 5OA! This is far beyond our wildest dreams.

Do you know the cute Zoom H3-VR? That's cool, but using your mobile to record in 5OA is even cooler, isn't it?
Once the rain stops (if it ever does!), we'll be out in the fields recording with this setup.

By the way! Do you know how many microphones you need to record in 5th order Ambisonics using standard microphones? - (Ambisonic order +1) squared. (fifth order + 1)² = 36!
So, just for fun, what if you took 36 microphones and weighed them? A regular SDC weighs about 120 g, so 36 microphones weighing 120 g each would weigh 4.32 kg in total.
Just the microphones. No clamps. No cables. Nothing. A spcmic weighs 168 g!
spcmic: 1, thirtysix mics: 0.

We can't wait to make some recordings. Maybe in parallel to some additional recordings with an other ECHO Project microphone array? - We'll see.