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Mic Quality/ Electric Tape

By identityexpired · Apr 30, 2010in General💬 1 posts👁️ 687 views
Posted Apr 30, 2010 · 18:34 UTC#1

So like most people on this forum, my mic generates a wind tunnel like sound in the background while I'm parked in a quiet garage or while driving.

 

Someone posted that wrapping an electrical tape on the outside of the mic should solve this.

 

So I experimented with the Electrical tape method yesterday and here are my results:

(In order to listen to my results, I left voice messages on my voicemail box.)

 

Pre Test - no tape = wind tunnel like sound in the background; voice sounds like it could be clear, but being distorted by the wind sound.

 

Test 1 - Wrapped with 3 layers of tape = no background wind noise but results in muffled voice.

Test 2 - Wrapped with 2 layers of tape = no background noise but results in mild muffled voice.

Test 3 - Wrapped with 1 layer of tape = reduced background noise but results muffled voice.

 

Final Test - So I decided to remove 25% of tape from the 1 layer, leaving some part of the mic exposed. This resulted in reduced background noise and no muffled voice.

 

It's not perfect, but it has improved the Mic Quality a lot. I can actually have a conversation over the phone while I'm drving now. Hopefully there is a bluetooth software update in the future that fixes this.