[Elecraft] help wiring a mic?

[Bob McGraw K4TAX]

Operator mike technique is very important with regard to good to great audio. 

I've found that my $20 Behringer 8500 sounds as good as my $100  Shure SM 58.  Likewise my $200 Heil PR 781 needs for one to pay special attention to mike-to-mouth distance in order to control proximity effect. 

Price and type do not assure one of "great audio".  OTOH - I find most hand mikes supplied with radios sound "plastic" with various resonances and rattles and squeaks, noticeable on the air. 

Bob, K4TAX


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On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:48 AM, Charlie T <pincon at erols.com> wrote:

>> This mic is intended for studio and recording work. It is a very poor 
>> choice for ham radio.
>> 
>> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
> 
> I feel Jim's choice of the term "poor" is correct, but in a monetary sense.
> 
> Yes, you may be able to get the mike to communications quality with racks of
> audio processing equipment etc.,
> but you will probably spend more for all that when you add the cost of the
> mike, than radio costs by itself.
> 
> Seem a tad wasteful to me when the radio already has a good EQ and a mike
> costing a fraction of the fancy "studio" mike will sound the same on the
> other end of the QSO.
> 
> I don't under the fascination (or logic?) of using a wide response and
> expensive microphone just to narrow it down to 300 to 2800 Hz, unless you're
> H3LL bent on putting out a 10 kHz wide VOA grade signal that is frankly,
> illegal anyway.
> 
> Yeah, yeah I know,  you're voice is "different" and you need all that stuff
> to make it sound "right".
> If that's what you want, then by all means go for it.
> It's the same logic as using your (insert $200k car) to make daily commuter
> runs mostly stuck in traffic.
> 
> 73, Charlie k3ICH
> 
> 
> 
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