Multichannel i2s digital MEMs microphone array clipping and bias
I’m using a multichannel i2s linear array of MEMs microphones Adafruit I2S MEMS Microphone Breakout – SPH0645LM4H connected via i2s to a MiniDsp MCHStreamer Kit soundcard.
I’m recording the input from all the microphones and I see some weird things happening:
- The input recording has a zero value centered around a negative bias in all the mics, but not exactly the same for all of them.
- The mics have an anomalous shifting when subjected to loud inputs, which happens both towards positive and negative values. (see picture)

For context: I’m recording loud 5ms frequency sweeps at 96Khz generated from a small loudspeaker positioned close in front of the microphones. The recordings are saved into a raspberry pi with linux connected via USB. However, the same happens with MacOs and Windows, so it looks like it is an hardware problem.
I would like to possibly remove the bias but most importantly avoid this weird phenomena under loud signal inputs.
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