[Elecraft] k3, heil pr781 mic, behringer 1204usb mixer

[David Bunte]

Buddy -

I almost never operate phone, but as a retired broadcast announcer, I am
concerned about audio quality.  I set up my K3 with my CM500 with care...
and the few phone contacts I have had have resulted in some VERY positive
comments on my audio quality... including some who assumed that, as a
former broadcaster, I was using thousands of dollars worth of mic,
equalization, and processing hardware.  Other K3 users believe me when I
say it is just the K3 with the equalization carefully set to "sound good".

It appears from the response you got from Barry, that he uses the mixer
primarily to facilitate two mics, and for phantom power.

I wonder what deficits you perceive in your transmit audio that make you
want to use a very expensive mic and an external mixer.

73 de Dave - K9FN


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:32 PM, barry whittemore <wb1edi at hotmail.com>wrote:

> We use a Behringer 802 Mic Mixer at our station. No to help tune the audio
> (the radio does that fine) but my wife and i are on together often and we
> do not have to manually switch mics. It took a few mods to do it all, One
> is the 802 has the 48 volt phantom voltage and we use PC headsets (CM-500)
> that need much less voltage. I just added a voltage divider to it
> internally and it works fine. The output of the 802 is higher than needed
> so i made my cable with a built in PAD, it was 10s of Db but i do not
> remember just what.  It also allows us to have inputs from the soundcard
> for voice keying in contests as the line is was lower than mic in.
>
> we also have a behringer headphone amp (4CH) and both work well. The Mic
> mixer does alow slight tuning for the differences between our voices but
> its not wildly adjustable. We do have a unique situation and it worked for
> us, I assume if we each had Heil prosets it would work as well, but i found
> mine uncomfortable and sold them.
>
> as far as the internal settings, i do not have them in front of me but we
> tweaked them after setting the 802 buy getting on the air and getting
> comments from a friend.
>
> settings that were better for me were not as good for my wife so it took
> some compromise.
>
> at least i have a wife that says things like "why dont we get a K3?" and
> "when are we putting up a tower?"
>
> Barry
>
> NF1O
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:04:06 -0500
> > From: buddys70 at gmail.com
> > To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: [Elecraft] k3, heil pr781 mic, behringer 1204usb mixer
> >
> > i want to improve my transmit audio using the above components. has
> > anybody done this, and like to share any internal menu settings that need
> > to coincide with the hardware implementation. thanks.
> >
> > 73 de,
> > w3bs, buddy spiegel
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