[Elecraft] Signal analysis with the P3

[Fred Jensen]

Not sure it is limited to dynamic mics.  I supported myself in college 
working on the engineering crew at the local TV station.  The Station 
Mgr once complained that the newscaster "boomed."  I recorded myself 
using his velocity mic [the large iconic RCA which had a prismatic 
shape] on an Ampex 350 at varying distances.  As I got closer, I became 
more and more a bass.  Our "anchorman" was right up on top of the mic 
sitting on his desk.  The rest of my crew thought the tone of my voice 
is pretty much "average male."

Using my K3, I've had a chance to be recorded by a friend on his K3 who 
then sent me a CD of the recordings.  Close-talking with my Heil boom 
mic [from Elecraft, electret element] with the TX EQ flat did the same 
thing and I became significantly less intelligible on the recording.  On 
SSB, I keep the mic just a little below my chin, talking across rather 
than into it [handy for drinking coffee and eating snacks in a contest 
too].  I also use the K9YC TX EQ settings.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

OT Trivia:  I was in college from 1957 to 1962.  We were the only TV 
station in town, cable and satellite TV and the Internet hadn't been 
invented yet, and out of an 18 hour broadcast day, we had thirty [30] 
minutes of news ... 15 minutes of "Jack Smith and the News" [local], 
followed by "The CBS Evening News with Douglas Edwards."  30 minutes 
seemed to cover things pretty well then. :-)

On 4/29/2014 7:28 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:

> but it can also be noticed on dynamic mics when males with voices
> that are particularly low pitched "close talk" a mic due to the
> increased low frequency response from the proximity effect.