The Stethosphone
The Stethosphone is an “alternative” miking tool built using a couple of electret mic capsules mounted inside a cheap stethoscope. This instrument is very useful in order to experiment with surface recording from any object and it is good even as new way to record instruments such as guitars, drums and so on.
Recording a Reaktor session with the Stethosphone through a Sony PCM D50 recorder
The following examples are Stethosphone recordings processed in Ableton Live with resonators, reverbs and delays.
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First two recordings captured from my Sony Vaio surface. Source materials are fans and hard disk noises. The recordings have been processed in Ableton Live.
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Vocal recording at low pitch, throat singing alike. The material has been processed in Ableton Live.
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Reaktor session recorded pointing the Stethosphone few millimeters over the laptop speaker and, then, processing it via Ableton Live.
External links:
The Stethosphone on Behance Network
Gearwire interview about the Stethosphone
hello lucca,
where can I get this stethosphone and how much is it?
second question: do yo have any suggestions
for a vsti, which can can substitute (replace?) the follow instruments:
alesis s4, peavey spectrum-synth, kawai k1r?
thx for your help and answer
regards
TSt
Hi TSt,
sorry for the late reply.
you can build the stethosphone by yourself using an ordinary stethoscope and a couple of cheap electret mic capsules. You only need to solder an ordinary stereo wire to capsules and fit them into stethoscope rubber pipe.
about your second question, as far as i know these are all digital rom based synths. i’ll suggest you to take a look to native instrumets kontakt or other sample based virtual instruments such as Spectrasonics Omnisphere.
All the bests,
Luca