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AcSoft Announces Exclusive Agreement to Offer Microtech Gefell Measurement Microphones

October 29, 2020 | 0 Comments

In a key strategic move designed to further reinforce its position at the forefront of sound and vibration instrumentation and software, AcSoft has announced an exclusive agreement to offer advanced measurement microphones from German company Microtech Gefell to the UK’s automotive, aerospace and defence industries, as well as for environmental applications, for the first time…

Microtech Gefell: The Old New Kid on the Block

October 12, 2020 | 0 Comments

In 1928, Georg Neumann in Berlin made the world’s first condenser microphone, and his company became legendary in the world of studio microphones and music recording, and still today, the famous U87 microphone is a standard in that field. After Germany was split by the Iron Curtain after the war, his company moved to Gefell,…

Calibration in the age of COVID-19

September 21, 2020 | 0 Comments

Since the country locked down in March, questions have arisen regarding calibration of instrumentation, either in the laboratory or in the field, and theimplications of extended periods outside the recommended calibration intervals. When noise monitoring equipment is installed on site, it will be as the result of a planning condition, for example, which will stipulate…