Throat Mic

[Peaches]

I was just wondering if anyone has used this or anything like this. I would like to start wearing a face mask and I have noticed that regular mics get in the way of face masks

http://www.rap4.com/store/paintball/motorola-radio-throat-mic

[masterteam]

I'll recommend iasus throat mic
http://www.iasus-concepts.com/nt/nt-sniperpro.htm
it really works...

[Cyph34r]

My experience with throat mics has been entirely negative, I have never had one that I did not have to yell with. On the other hand, I've heard plenty of people HAVE gotten good ones, so just be willing to spend like ten gajillion dollars on one, and you'll be fine.

[LiberalPacifist]

Throat mics are shaky quality wise in my experience.

You could do something like I've done with my Finnish gas mask, and put a mic from a cheap headset in the exhale valve, or somewhere near your mouth, then solder an ear-bud or two in for sound. It looks rather nice once its all heat-shrinked up.

[Catch22]

Throat mics are the work of the devil.

[Steve]

Cheap throat mics are the work of the devil.

Fixed.

[Cyph34r]

Cheap of course being anything sub-$200

[Steve]

I was thinking less than $400 or so, but yeah.

Inexpensive throat mics can be spotty. And rather than being whisper microphones, they trend toward needing full speech noise, but do generally cut down on ambient sounds.

The expensive ones work pretty well at picking up near-subvocal noises and turning them into recognizeable speech. But they are not cheap. And generally work with military radios, not civilian ones.

[BlacksunshineGAAS]

Steve W. (RIP) used to use the RAP4 throat mic when he would visit our field. It seemed to work pretty well for him in communicating with the rest of the team. He always spoke well of it.