# Teenage Engineering EP–2350 Ting Mic

By Umesh Yadav

Topic: Art, Music & Film

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## Guide

### 1. Meet the Ting

This is the EP–2350 Ting, a palm\-sized effects microphone from Teenage Engineering\. It is 88 mm tall and weighs about 100 g\. Drag the background to turn the scene, or grab the mic to tilt it\.

Shown here at three and a half times life size\.

### 2. Squeeze to go live

The orange lever on the side is the talk switch: hold it in and the mic wakes up and goes live\. Let go and it goes quiet\. Squeeze the lever in the scene, or use the switch below\.

This 3D Ting cannot hear you, so a hummed stand\-in voice plays instead\.

### 3. Four lo\-fi effects

Lo\-fi means a little rough and crunchy on purpose\. The orange button steps through four voice effects: echo repeats you, echo plus spring adds a boingy metal reverb, pixie adds a squeaky higher voice and robot buzzes like a machine\.

The light pipes beside the grille show which effect is on\.

### 4. Bend the sound

How far you squeeze the lever sets how strong the effect is\. A tiny motion sensor inside also feels the mic tilt, so grab the mic and rock it to wobble the effect while you talk\.

Pushing the lever all the way in gives a little click\.

### 5. Fire a sample

The Ting holds four short sounds\. The white button picks one and the grey button plays it, from an air horn to a laser zap, a kick drum and a bell\.

On a real Ting you can copy your own sounds onto it over USB\-C\.

### 6. Curly cable, real speaker

The Ting does not play your voice out loud by itself\. Its sound travels down the curly cable to a 3\.5 mm plug, into a sound system\. Unplug it and everything goes silent\.

Swing the mic about to watch the coil bounce\.

### 7. Two AAA cells or USB\-C

Under the dark back cover sit two AAA batteries\. You can also power it from a USB\-C cable instead\. USB\-C does not recharge the batteries, so use one or the other\.

Tap the cover, the cells or the USB\-C plug to swap them yourself\.

### 8. Look inside

Take it apart to see what is inside\. The green main board carries a tiny RP2350 computer chip and the motion sensor\. Behind the grille sits a small round speaker part, and the lever turns on a metal hub with a spring and a position sensor\.

The inner layout here is simplified from published teardowns\.