[Elecraft] My mic!

[Grant Youngman]

i do often wonder why everyone who buys a new radio wants to know what  
mic to use, as though radios and mics were somehow born to be together.

A mic is a mic.  It can be EQ'd in the radio or outside the radio, the  
K3 input can take about anything you can feed it, and still there's  
this notion that somehow the mic is "special".  I have not heard  
anything about "THAT special mic" for the K3.    Do we really need to  
be this "an*l" about making sure that we haven't picked the wrong  
one?  What's the wrong one?

I'll weigh in, too.  E-V RE-20 feeding a Behringer VX-2000, thence (I  
love that word) to a Rane SM 26B Splitter Mixer( I drive several  
radios, mostly of 1950's vintage, with the same lousy audio), then to  
the Line input on the K3.  Would several dozen other mics sound fine?   
Of course -- It's me with the squeaky voice, not the mic, and  
certainly not the K3.  I can EQ that nice RE-20 to sound just like an  
HC-4 if the spirit moves .. :-)

Grant/NQ5T

On Nov 5, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Telegrapher at att.net wrote:

> Well i suppose i might just as well weigh in on this as well since  
> it seems to be the "thing to do"!
>
> When i got my K3  (#763) this summer it came with a Kenwood 600 ohm  
> Dynamic handheld.  Must have come from something that uses the UP- 
> Down buttons but anyway, no one has told me my audio sounded bad so  
> i guess it sounds good.  What more could i ask.. BC quality?  NOT!
>
> Larry
> W0OGH
>
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