I wana turn a speaker into a mic- HOW?

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episg

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Well, the title really says it all. I want to turn a speaker into a microphone, how do u do it?? Muse used an NS10 driver as a mic on the kick for the fills in Apocalypse Please...........

Cheers
 
Wire the positive and negative terminals of the speaker to a 1/4" plug. Plug into a DI box. Run DI box to preamp. Fin.
 
didn't you ever use your headphones as a mic when you were a tot messin around with dads mega cool stereo gear?
 
Just in case it's not clear to the OP or anyone else, you need to use the sub-kick in conjunction with a normal kick mic.

The "NS10 mic" is not at all suitable by itself.
 
Keep it simple !

Adam P said:
"Wire the positive and negative terminals of the speaker to a 1/4" plug. Plug into a DI box. Run DI box to preamp. Fin."
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The DI box is superfluous in this situation. A DI box is used where you have an impedance conversion requirement (e.g. guitar pickup) or where you have two items earthed (grounded) causing a hum loop, and you want to lift one earth. With a speaker, the impedance is (very) low so you would simply connect the terminals to a 1/4" phone plug, like Adam says, but plug straight into the 1/4" input jack on your mixer or preamp.
 
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