Usually, the negative terminal is internally connected to the microphone's metal shell. Use a tester to measure resistivity between each terminal and the outer shell; if you get zero, you found your "negative".
Unless you're into some precise signal processing or some other hi-fi application, polarity doesn't really matter at the microphone.
to check which polarity is wat the rule of thumb in most packaging is to see the package where the two pins are given . one will have a circle marked around it.this terminal is the positive terminal and the other is the ground terminal.
The electret microphone is based on the electret capacitor, which is a special capacitor with quasi-permanent charge. Vibrations in the air are picked up by the capacitor, which generates an equivalent vibrating electrical signal. Unlike a traditional condensor (another name for capacitor) microphone, the electret does not require a power source.
One can purchase a Sony ECM DS70P Electret Condenser stereo microphone from the Sony store for $74.99. However, one can try to get microphone for a cheaper price on Amazon or eBay.
yes, it transduces sound waves to voltage variations
James E. West and Gerhard M. Sessler did together.
Energizer EPX76
The inventor of the —foil electret microphone with Gerhard Sessler in 1964 in the Bell Lab.
it does not work
Good, cheap electret inserts work fine - you do need to provide some power, but I expect you're making powered circuits anyway. Check out hobbies/electronics magazines/websites. Expect some tens of millivolts from normal voice levals.
First it is very important to chose the right microphone. There are condenser microphones, ribbon microphones, dynamic microphones, and there are electret microphones. There are some different characteristics: omni directional, wide cardioid, cardioid, super cardioid, hyper cardoid and figure-of-eight. There are microphones with small diaphragm diameters and with large diaphragm diameters. There are expensive high quality studio microphones and less ideal very cheap Chinese mics. When you have found the right microphone, then you can start to ask where to put this microphone to which musical instrument or voice.
Check your spelling - is the word you are requesting: polarity?
Not recommended, but yes many earphones will work but give very poor quality sound and probably not enough volume to be useful. Most earphones contain a small coil of wire on a movable form around a small magnet. The current sent from the PC earphone socket through the coil causes vibrations which can be heard. Making a noise close to the earphone will cause the coil to vibrate and generate a small current which the microphone socket should be able to pick up. Some microphone inputs will expect an electret condenser microphone and so will not work with a dynamic input.
to check voltage, current , polarity of of material,etc