mounting homebrew contact mic

[Christian Oncken]

All this talk about contact mics got me thinking... would it be possible to
create a strange reverb/delay system using 2 contact mics?  These things are
transducers, capable of making noise as well, no?  If so, use one as a
"driver" and the other as a "pickup", with appropriate circuitry to drive
the input signal and amplify the result.  With this arrangement you could
connect them both to opposite ends of a suspended spring, send a signal to
be effected to the driver, receive it at the pickup and have the equivalent
of a spring reverb, right?  How about sticking them to the pipes in your
house, or to a huge concrete floor?  Could you turn anything into a reverb
this way?  It would work better on some things than others I suppose... how
about a tree, or an antenna tower?

Sorry if this is a little bit out there... its late and I'm tired, but am I
crazy?  What do you all think?  I thinking miking a tree would be cool.

Christian Oncken.

BTW,  what exactly is a wadcutter pellet?  Some kind of air rifle
projectile?  Please elaborate in private email.





>Thanks to Harry Bissell & his idea (gluing a .177 wadcutter pellet to a
>RadShack piezo--#273-064, $1.79), I now have a piezo contact mic.  But I
>don't plan to attach this unit to a big metal/nylon disk for use as a drum
>trigger. I wish to use some kind of non-destructive removeable reusable
>adhesive to place the face of the piezo/pellet gadget securely in contact
>with, say, the soundboard of guitar or for other such temporary
>installations.  Any suggestions/sources for such an adhesive or other means
>of temp. attachment?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>Kevin
>