Don't you think a good Hi-Fi mike that accurately reproduces the sound field
driving it is "all the mike" you need? Once you have an accurate electronic
representation of the actual audio you can process/distort it in any way
needed/wanted. It isn't required to have a mike distorted in some
particular way to get the final distorted audio desired. There is no sound
quality reproduced by any microphone that can not, in theory, be
electronically manufactured from a starting point of an accurate Hi-Fi
representation of the original sound field (operator's voice.)
There was a time when shortcomings in what was doable in electronic
processing of a microphone signal made selecting microphones with some
special distortion built in a necessity to achieve certain desired, for
whatever reason, distortions of the true audio input.
Back in the olden times when I couldn't afford fancy audio processor
equipment to compete with or emulate the DX gurus I'd just tuck a stick in
the waist band of my jockey shorts, take it up like a tourniquet about 5-9
revolutions (depending on the desired effect) and then shout into the
microphone through a toilet paper tube. On-air comparisons rated my thrifty
approach the equivalent of the big guru's RF processors, companders, and
compressors.
Patrick AF5CK
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walker
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 3:51 PM
To: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz>
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Microphone Recommendation?
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Personally, it is about getting the message
through.
I just ran CQWW and I know that if I had not used the HC5 element (really
sharp and annoying) there are many stations that would have not copied me.
I also can honestly say that those that were using a DX like shaping, I had
problems copying.
There is no 1 perfect element (just like a swiss army knife). You need
different 'shapes' for different tasks.
Listen to this about the HC6. Pay attention to how each of his shapes
sound. http://www.heilsound.com/amateur/press/hc6.mp3
I recorded all of my 1600 QSO's from CQWW. I will try to find some great
DX audio and some really bad DX audio. It won't be until next week though.
When I do, I will share them.
Mike va3mw
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:36 PM, KC2TN <kc...@comcast.net> wrote:
For an excellent guide to setting up a Flex audio chain see this YouTube
video.
http://www.eteksciki.info/video/2trJjUObLkY.html
There are enough adjustments in the embedded mixers and equalizers that
most microphones can be made to sound great!
If you don't overdrive the DIGITAL audio chain.
Also, for a textual copy of these adjustments see:
http://www.w1aex.com/psdrgain/psdrgain.html
Joe - KC2TN
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 31, 2013, at 9:29 AM, "TM" <tm.st...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Well, I am finally getting around to buying a mike for my Flex 3000.
Have really enjoyed CW and some of the digital modes with it for the last
two years and would like to give SSB a shot. The last mike I bought was a
D-104, and the last phone entry in my logs dates to the 70s. So, just
wondering what the Flex users have found to be a good choice. Doubt that
I
will use it a bunch, so would probably go for something other than top of
the line, studio grade.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> 73, Tom
> K1FR
>
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