Adafruit 1063 Electret Microphone Amplifier - MAX4466 with Adjustable Gain
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- •Stock Type: Sensors >> Sound/Noise
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Adafruit 1063 Electret Microphone Amplifier - MAX4466 with Adjustable Gain
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Customer Reviews
Reviews sourced from verified Amazon purchasers3.9
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Excessive capacitive noise/effects when sampled at a high rate
Amazon Customer•August 29, 2017
Causes capacitive effects that shift the baseline whenever it is sampled at a high rate (~40kHz). Guessing it's some weird interactions between the amplifier output and the sampling pin. It's like a spike then exponential decay over about 6 ms, and the spike is about 5x larger in magnitude than the signal itself, making this useless for sensing audio. Bought 2 to make sure it wasn't just a fluke and the second one (separate order and manufacturing batch) did the same thing. Other mics like this work fine.
Works as expected
Amazon Customer•August 27, 2017
I am not quite there with the project I am working on but so far, this thing is doing its job quite well.
It's a pretty good product for being as cheap as is it
PG•June 1, 2017
Used this to create a graphic equalizer along with a TI MSP430. It's a pretty good product for being as cheap as is it, although it took some experimenting to really limit the bandwidth & amplitude.
4 1/2 stars, works as described
Amazon Customer•January 5, 2017
In reality this is more likely about 4 1/2 stars instead of 5.
Would have been nice to have the pins pre-soldered but was not a big issue. A small hassle to find example code to test this out but I would recommend going to the actual Adafruit site and running their supplied code.
Yes, this microphone is not that sensitive. It is smaller than a quarter and didn't claim to be that sensitive. HOWEVER, for me at least, this is a very simple fix. For example, if you are trying to decipher something like a clap then do a little testing, and change the threshold corresponding to where you want to sense the clap from. All it takes is changing the threshold that "detects" the clap. Granted the distance from the microphone can make the clap register a very different value but that is not the microphone's fault. Use multiple at different position if you have to.
Works well and does as described. Will update if I have issues.
Would have been nice to have the pins pre-soldered but was not a big issue. A small hassle to find example code to test this out but I would recommend going to the actual Adafruit site and running their supplied code.
Yes, this microphone is not that sensitive. It is smaller than a quarter and didn't claim to be that sensitive. HOWEVER, for me at least, this is a very simple fix. For example, if you are trying to decipher something like a clap then do a little testing, and change the threshold corresponding to where you want to sense the clap from. All it takes is changing the threshold that "detects" the clap. Granted the distance from the microphone can make the clap register a very different value but that is not the microphone's fault. Use multiple at different position if you have to.
Works well and does as described. Will update if I have issues.
Good Microphone
Runjo•December 5, 2016
Product came on time. The only problem I saw with this product was that the microphone was soldered on crooked. I was able to fix and adjust the microphone back to the regular state
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