Perhaps you could use the DVR (if you had it) to record your voice and then play it back...
~Brett On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 19:58 -0800, Bob - W0GI wrote: > Well K3 number 3903 has been online for 12 days now. I bought it mostly for > CW and digital, but a few days ago, I figured I should wire up a mic. So > since I have a few Yaesu hand mics, I rewired the 8-pin plug for the K3. > > That worked fine, but setting the EQ has been a nightmare. Monitoring from > the K3 headphone jack and the receive on the Mark-V sounded weird, like it > was through DSP noise reduction. I tried other dynamic mics in the rear > panel and still, just a strange hollow sound. > > Tonight, I decided to make an MP3 recording to send to Elecraft tomorrow, to > see what is wrong with my otherwise perfect K3. Guess what, nothing is > wrong? It sounds normal. > > Now I realize that there is a small delay as the audio is run through the > ADC, DSP, then DAC. It is only a few milliseconds, but when the headphone > audio is mixed with your actual voice through bone conduction to the > eardrums, you have a weird audio effect that is not true to the actual > sound. The EQ is also impossible to adjust properly. My on the air reports > were not good, as I had way too much high end EQ set to counter the lows > from bone conduction. > > So my conclusion is that the only way to do it right, is to transmit to a > seperate receiver that is feeding audio into a soundcard. Record the audio, > then play it back. > > This effect doesn't seem as significant with an analog (no delay) audio > chain, but I bet I can get the Mark-V sounding better by recording reception > of the Mark-V on the K3. > > Maybe I can get on the Elecraft SSB net next Sunday to see if this all > works. :>) > > Hope this makes some sense, and helps others with audio setup. > > 73 - Bob > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
