Binary Acoustic Technology miniMIC

The miniMIC was conceived at the April 2013 Western Bat Working Group meeting after realizing the needs bat biologists have for a lower cost, but still high quality microphone we can use for active monitoring. A few weeks later, BCM received the first two miniMIC demo units and proceeded to test them the remainder of that summer. The miniMIC is the latest addition to Binary Acoustic Technologies professional grade ultrasonic receiver and microphone product line. The miniMIC is small, portable, and easy to carry.  It employs a hemispherical, wide bandwidth ultrasonic element along with ultrasonic to digital conversion technology to produce a high quality, digitally sampled, acoustic stream that is captured directly into a Windows tablet, a laptop or netbook running Windows XP or higher, or a Mac via Parallels for recording and analysis. The miniMIC is specifically designed for applications such as bat recording and vocalization analysis where wide spatial coverage and a wide ultrasonic