Let's face it -- bass drum microphones have been a stodgy old product category that has seen little change or innovation in decades. The KickTone Microphone disrupts all that. It is a breakthrough in the design of dynamic mics dedicated to capturing the full spectrum of sound naturally produced in the resonant chamber of a bass drum. It is built around a specially manufactured hemp diaphragm that's both stiff and light weight, providing excellent damping characteristics. There is a second, co-axial dynamic structure to pick up the higher-frequency transients that give a bass drum its snap. The result is a punchy, well-defined sound that instantly grabs a listener's attention. If all this wasn’t enough, the KickTone is easily the coolest looking mic you’ve ever seen.
Microphones and speakers share something important in common, they have a thin piece of material connected to a positive and negative cable set which when voltage is passed through will move in accordance with that voltage. When we use a microphone, the movement of the 'diaphragm' is translated into +/- electrical current to the wires and signal is created. In a speaker, these same connections are attached to a 'voice-coil' and the electrical current goes into the material resulting in the same sound recorded by the microphone; physics lesson complete.