{"id":8539,"date":"2013-12-13T04:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T04:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerokidz.com\/ideas\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2014-02-25T20:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T20:48:45","slug":"notes-on-underwater-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=8539","title":{"rendered":"Notes on underwater sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a good idea to connect a piezo directly to the output of an iPod. Apparently the impedance is too low and it fried the audio circuit and battery. I should have just dropped it (the iPod) in the water instead of the piezo.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to get excellent underwater sound using \u00a0a piezo for a mic &#8211; it was a little over an inch diameter, broken out of the radio shack black plastic case &#8211; with some hot glue to cover the wire connections &#8211; probably not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>See this article about working with Radio Shack piezo transducers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrums.info\/radio_shack_piezo.htm\">http:\/\/www.edrums.info\/radio_shack_piezo.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The speaker was a Dayton Audio Weatherproof Extreme Exciter &#8211; from Amazon &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B0031K2XBA\">http:\/\/amzn.com\/B0031K2XBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-12-at-11.49.33-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8540\" title=\"Screen Shot 2013-12-12 at 11.49.33 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-12-at-11.49.33-PM-300x139.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-12-at-11.49.33-PM-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-12-at-11.49.33-PM-500x231.png 500w, https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-12-at-11.49.33-PM.png 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I used a small power amp to feed it.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B0049P6OT\">http:\/\/amzn.com\/B0049P6OT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: the exciter also sounds great when its duct taped to a cymbal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a good idea to connect a piezo directly to the output of an iPod. Apparently the impedance is too low and it fried the audio circuit and battery. I should have just dropped it (the iPod) in the water instead of the piezo. I was able to get excellent underwater sound using \u00a0a piezo &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=8539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notes on underwater sound&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dsp","tag-portfolio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Notes on underwater sound - reactive music<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=8539\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Notes on underwater sound - reactive music\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not a good idea to connect a piezo directly to the output of an iPod. 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