[Elecraft] Voice is clipped K3s

[Gary Smith]

My 30 year old heil element finally bit 
the dust. I bought an Elecraft MH4 
hand-held mic and am trying to get it 
adjusted.

I checked in with a local net and was told 
there is a kind of clipping on my words, 
like the ends of some word were being cut 
off. Another report said it sounded more 
like there was an artificial sound 
in-between the syllables, that it wasn't 
on the peaks but noted in the the troughs, 
perhaps a bit of clicking in there.

I don't hear any difficulties with the 
monitor, everything sounds like normal 
words with no distortion. I'm not using 
VOX and have no idea what I might try 
looking at to resolve this. 

As to the equalizing of the MH4, is there 
a set of values with the 8 bands to give 
it more of a character of a Heil HC4 
element or something well suited for DX?

Any suggestions on the clipping & Mic TX 
EQ & what I might try doing to resolve 
this?

73,

Gary
KA1J