[Elecraft] OT Was Yamaha CM500

[Wes Stewart]

Food for thought.

As is (too) often the case, I find some of these discussion amusing.

One guy asks, "What settings should I use for X?" and a dozen guys pop up with "the" answer, as if one size fits all.

In this case, everyone's voice is different, there has to be some variability in a low cost, mass-produced headset, the microphone to mouth distance will be different for different ops and so on and so forth.

I am, if not the first, certainly one of the first, to use and bring the CM500 to the attention of this group.  But it is not magic and there are no magic adjustments that suit everyone.

I have never had a broadcaster's voice and as I age, this only gets worse.  Extreme cuts in bass response are counter productive for me.

To make adjustments in the equalizer/compression, etc. probably the best one can do without a room full of test equipment is to record yourself via the monitor and listen to the played back audio with a good set of 'phones.  If you want a revelation, be sure to use the new "fast monitor" to see how the microphone really sounds before any processing.

Another amusement is one guy saying, "I cut the lows and leave the highs flat" and another guy says, "I leave the lows flat and boost the highs" and they think there is a different result, when all they really did was move the same frequency response up and down an amplitude scale.

Wes Stewart, N7WS