How can you tell a condenser microphone from a ribbon microphone?

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Well an easy way is to open up sound recorder and click record and once you play it back you hear sound its in there if not then it doesn't

A condenser is a capacitor and it consist of two plates separated by some insulating material or air the closer the plates to each other the higher the capacitance, a condenser mic is only a...

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The one thing you need to know when using a condenser microphone rather than a dynamic mic is that the condenser needs something called phantom power. This is a small charge of 48v that powers the...