Sunday, November 22, 2015

Who said that microphones should have a flat frequency response?

Perhaps nobody did.


Truth is that what counts is not flat response from mic to loudspeaker but...


Flat frequency response from the vocal cords of the singer to the brain of the listener (explained on the Hollywood paper referred to in older posts).


Apart from this are proximity boost effects at low and high frequencies which must be compensated.


All these effects may explain why a "lesser" mic or input transformer can be a giant killer.


The record industry uses Pultec filters to this end but why not producing a mic where the sound is already there?


Be prepared that frequencies below 1KHz for example must be reduced if a directional microphone is used at next to mouth distance. Similar apparently crazy things must be done at the high end of the spectrum
More on the following posts....

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