• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

NoisyToys

Learning Through the Creative Exploration of Sound

  • Home
    • Prices
    • About
    • Galleries & videos
    • Shop
    • Links
  • What we do
    • Workshops
    • Acousatron
    • Drop-in activities
    • Walkabout
    • Shows
    • Festivals
    • Parties
  • Contact
  • testimonials
  • Prices
You are here: Home / What we do / Instruments and Audio

Instruments and Audio

On this page you will soon be able to find out about all the instruments that we use in our installations, as well as new designs in the pipeline. We can also make some instruments on order; contact Steve here.

piezo_contact_microphones

Contact microphones £20

After years of painstaking research (getting our mics broken by kids during workshops and at events) we have developed a 5 stage process for toughening up the flimsy Piezo disks and fitting them with good quality sturdy instrument cable. We wouldn’t go so far as to say they are indestructable, but they are about as tough as these things get.

Standard Noisy Toys contact mic:

3m cable; green, purple, red, orange, black, yellow, blue (pro grade Van Damme instrument cable as standard)
Standard connector; jack, xlr, mini jack (for Eurorack), banana (neutric connectors available for extra £4)
Double rubber-dipped & primed; green, purple, red

Rubber dipping makes the mics much more tactile, but will result in a slight loss of top end. Most people find that the un-dipped mics are slightly too generous with the treble, and prefer the sound of the dipped mics. For some applications (for example as triggers) un-dipped mics may be preferred. Please contact me for advice on this.

Piezo mics are not for studio quality sound recording, but they are great all rounders and can produce surprisingly useable results. They have a high output and can usually be plugged straight into a mixer or amp without the need for added gain.

NT_vlnContact01.jpg Perfect clipped onto a violin bridge for instant electric strings!

51y-sdConeL._SX522_ Raw Piezo disks- so delicate, just look at those connections waiting to pop off!

Primary Sidebar

Events/News

I said ‘Shut It’ – Noisy Toys podcast

12 July, Science & Media Museum, Bradford, drop-in sound activities

25-27 July Deer Shed Festival – Scavengers drop-in workshops

26 July – BD Fest Bradford, drop-in/walkabout activities

View all upcoming events...

Audio Assault Buggy

Buggy-Blue Dot 2019

Making workshop: Design, Build, Code, Battle

Buggy_Battles-logo

Year 4 Sound & Circuits

Media Museum workshops

Footer

Terms and Conditions
Privacy Policy
Contact

© 2023 Noisy Toys