I'm working on hooking up a microphone system to my carpenter ant colony ... I expect to hear mostly chewing sounds, but part of me has a vision of tuning in the microphone (super sensitive modified guitar pickup) these tiny squeaky voices:
"... that's how we'll deal with their airports. Send a messenger to the Canadian colonies so--"
"--shhh!"
"What?" whispering
"--we may be BUGGED." frantic whispering
Sudden painful feedback blows out recording equipment. Smoke rises from the ruined mic.
Wrong how so? The sounds ants make are physical vibrations transfered through the ground they stand on... what might be the best way to pick that up? I don't know much about audio at all TBH.
I had some luck with a borrowed pick up in the past, but I want to make a better system.
@futurebird guitar pickups are magnets that have metal strings vibrate in front of them to create sound. I'm not sure they'd be good for regular vibrations like regular microphones pick up.