Mic preamp into Arduino

Hi there

I need to amplify a very tiny mic signal to read it into an analog Arduino input. Now I’ve found hundreds of amplifying circuits in the net but as I’m quite new to electronics I could not decide which is right. I am after a very simple, not super performant solution, as I will be using this signal only for experimental reasons. I’d like to use a amplification with a 2n2222a transistor and I’ve got some 100uF capacitors, aswell as many different resistors.

Can anyone point me to a circuit I could make?

Many thanks!

R.

The 2N2222A isn’t suitable, you need a low-noise device like the old BC109. What is the microphone impedance, and output level?

W/o knowing your mic it’s hard to design a simple transistor amp (though I guess you could use the values in the schematic for the 1’st link below). Frankly I’d look at one of the following …

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8872

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9816

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9964

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9868

My microphone looks like this and as far as I know it is an inductive pickup mic with 1000 Ohm resistance:

http://www.henri.de/images/articles/475 … a0ed_5.jpg

As I said, performance/noise/distortion is not priority.

Does this help?