Today's daily reading led me to someone's project for putting together a classic speaker-mic. In this case the speaker (or victim) came from an NS10, and the project was put together by recording.org's recorderman.

These things sound great on kick drum and have been made by the DIY crowd for many, many years. They capture very low-end information, which is great for adding presence. Thus they're also good on guitar amps, acoustic bass, some percussion (like djembe), or just for experimentation.

A modern, hipper version of this idea has been released by Yamaha. The SKRM-100 "subkick" mic looks cool, comes with nice mounting hardware, and in the opinion of Mix Magazine, sounds pretty good too. I don't think I'll be seeing any of these in Poa anytime soon, though.