[Elecraft] Microphone Qusestion

[Fred Jensen]

A little OT, but Joe is sooo correct.  Starting college, I worked at an 
FM station as a member of the TX engineering crew and a board op.  I had 
the sign-on shift 3 days a week and was the only one there ... and I 
should probably include I was 16 and the engineering crew had minimal 
adult supervision.

The mic at the board was the iconic prismatic RCA velocity mic, quite 
big and I found that, if I crawled up to it real close while reading the 
sign-on script, I sounded like a 45 yr old bass, highly experienced 
announcer instead of a 16 yr old teenager.  I think this is true for 
most mic types, that velocity mic just may have been the extreme case.

While bass is nice on a 50 Hz to 15 KHz hi-fi broadcast channel playing 
classical music [think 1812 Overture], you don't want that on a comm 
channel.  K3 TX EQ is extremely effective in tailoring the audio from 
most any mic.  I wonder how it would do using a Bell T-1 carbon element 
from an old black telephone?

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org

On 7/5/2015 11:13 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
>  > Microphones have to suit your voice.
>
> No, microphones need to be reasonably flat without excess low
> frequency response, particularly when worked close.