Free microphone SVG files

Mesh that holds together

The head of a stage microphone is a ball of wire mesh. Drawn as crossed lines it would cut the ball into dozens of loose diamonds, so here the mesh is a field of small round holes with a single seam across the middle. Each hole is about 3 mm across when the microphone is 100 mm long. In vinyl that weeds well from about 90 mm long. For anything smaller, use the simple microphone silhouette, which has no mesh at all.

On a laser the holes cut cleanly at any size the beam allows, and the ball looks best backed with silver or mirror card.

Stage, studio or podcast

The hand-held microphone is the singer’s one, for karaoke, choirs and bands. The vintage microphone with its ribbed head and yoke suits radio, rock and roll and anything 1950s. The microphone icon and the podcast microphone with headphones are the studio kind, for recording, voice work and broadcasting. Pick the one that matches the performer and the design will make sense to them.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

Questions