Microphones Quotes

World War II was still going on. It was very hard to get any kind of electronic components. The chief engineer had to scrounge around to find microphones and transmitters. It was very difficult. - Bob Carroll

When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones. - Kylie Minogue

We're getting a lay of the land. We're finding out where the microphones are, how they'll operate, which tables we're going be sitting at, how to present the exhibits -- the basic details that one wants to be familiar with when you're presenting a trial. - Steve Chabot

We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now. - Markus Wolf

We met the first day and sang in the choir together... We played guitar at churches. We used to borrow the priests' guitars and take the microphones from church to sing. So many times we would sing in the bathrooms in Cathedral because the acoustics were awesome. - Robert Vega

We made it on a cheap PC that couldn't get enough power and kept crashing. We'd borrow microphones, cords and pieces, and we made our own kind of soundproofing. That's what I mean about trying to be great with what you've got. ... It gives you a sound that no one else has got because no one else is doing it in that room. It's like the great Stones records where you hear Charlie Watts miss a beat or you hear Mick in the background encouraging the backing singers. It's amazing. - Richard Archer

To capture the sounds audiophiles expect with HDTV, clarity is key: Experience has shown me that to do a wonderful job with [surround sound], you need clarity. The sound has got to be clean, clear and open. So I thought, Why not go for the best you can get? Use the same very-high-quality microphones all around to really go for it. The AT4050s were chosen for their sound. - Bob Dixon

The interviews can be a little distracting... But they go by quickly. The important thing is you're pleasing the audience. And I'd rather do interviews than just have microphones around. During the action, things come out that can be embarrassing. - Lou Piniella

Seismometers are just like microphones. They're buried in the ground and, when the earth shakes, they generate a current that goes via telephone lines or the Internet to a computer system that reads the arrival time and size of the shaking. If you have several seismometers, you can determine the location and magnitude of an event. - Walter Mooney