conference microphone?

[alexxxm]

Hi everybody - a newbie in search for help here...

I'm developing an art project, where I intend to build a sculpture housing inside it a small computer (Linux), constantly monitoring its surroundings, and recording any sound/music once it goes beyond a given threshold.
It should successively process the sounds and react to them in different ways.

What kind of microphone should I use? I mention that it does not need to be excessively hidden, I can have some kind of opening for it.

I heard about "conference microphones", but I dont know if they're the correct choice.
One last requirement - I'd like not to go bankrupt for this!

thanks for any help...


alessandro

 

[Shadow_7]

You're probably looking for something in a boundary mic.

Define processing? Are you going to be using what gets recorded for playback at all? Or just take it and interpret it, then change a stop light color or something? Or playback Shhhh... when it gets too loud.

 

[alexxxm]

You're probably looking for something in a boundary mic.

Define processing? Are you going to be using what gets recorded for playback at all? Or just take it and interpret it, then change a stop light color or something? Or playback Shhhh... when it gets too loud.

while I'm still at the drawing board for this, I was thinking along the lines of getting samples recorded, then processed in the way of randomly sampling them and optionally mixing them with music - and replayed periodically.

Any suggestion for a boundary mic?


alessandro