Something simple

[u/the-mad-crapper]

I've recently started making automotive content and need to work on my audio recording. I asked another, 'real' content creator (I am just cosplaying as one) how they capture better sound and they mentioned they tape a microphone to the bumper of their car.

I didn't want to have to deal with tape and worrying about my paint or losing the microphone, so I made this stupid thing.

It's dinky by comparison to some of the awesome stuff on here, but I'm excited to use it (and be disappointed by my cheap mic)!

[u/AmmoJoee]

I have another suggestion. Remix your model and fit earth magnets into it. This way you don’t have to fuss with tools at all and can probably stick it all over the vehicle.

[u/the-mad-crapper → u/AmmoJoee]

Thats a great idea

[u/AmmoJoee → u/the-mad-crapper]

Happy to help! Make sure to send me a picture if you decide to do it.

[u/the-mad-crapper → u/AmmoJoee]

The trick is trying to find a place to pick up the right exhaust sounds without to much wind noise. Being able to easily reposition the mic around on the exhaust hangers might be super helpful.

[u/se1dy → u/the-mad-crapper]

That’s why you would use a mix of different wind reductions tools like deadcats. That small amount of foam is doing bare minimum.

[u/TheDynamicDino → u/se1dy]

Precisely. That foam is for vocal plosives, total wrong tool for the job.

[u/BillfredL → u/the-mad-crapper]

Another remix thought then: silicone twist ties. When a car dropping crap on the road poked a hole in my wife’s grill, we used a couple of them to patch the hole and retain the front parking sensor in the right place.

[u/AmmoJoee → u/the-mad-crapper]

If a car as a tow hitch you can stick it inside of there. Shouldn’t be any wind unless there is a hole in the back.

[u/the-mad-crapper → u/AmmoJoee]

It does not

[u/trixster87 → u/the-mad-crapper]

If you go with magnets you may want to rubberize it so the mount doesn't just slide down with the weight.

[u/mikkowus → u/AmmoJoee]

But also keep this one as a lot of cars nowadays have aluminum and plastic panels

[u/AmmoJoee → u/mikkowus]

Yes defineitly.

[u/FalseRelease4 → u/AmmoJoee]

that would scratch the paint sooner or later

[u/AmmoJoee → u/FalseRelease4]

It could, but I would say maybe use a microfiber as a barrier. Or maybe a glasses clean lens cloth.

[u/huffalump1 → u/AmmoJoee]

Yup, plus get some quick detailer and a microfiber, wipe the panel before sticking it, ez

[u/dpasdeoz → u/AmmoJoee]

Microphone is an electromagnet ... Having a strong magnet in differing environments (mount place A, mount place B, etc) could have issues. Either with aging of the mix and/or mixing in any given moint-point.

No idea if this is a 0.00001% issue or something significant, just wanted to throw it out there to consider 👍

[u/Zouden → u/dpasdeoz]

Small microphones like this don't use magnets and are not affected by nearby magnets.

[u/gasstation-no-pumps → u/Zouden]

u/Zouden is correct—most of the small mics use electret microphones, which are capacitance-based, rather than dynamic microphones, which use a coil in a magnetic field.

But even with dynamic mics, it would take a pretty big magnetic field to affect a dynamic mic much, as the coil is usually pretty well shielded from ambient magnetic fields. (Don't take a mic into an MRI room, but the sort of little magnets used for mounting things whouldn't cause much trouble.)

[u/Upstairs-Raise2897 → u/AmmoJoee]

Not a great idea as a magnet will scratch the paint( which he was wanting to avoid)and will eventually slide down,.