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Re: [TenTec] 707 Mike

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] 707 Mike
From: "ROD" <w3krq@dejazzd.com>
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:03:08 -0400
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I sent my 707 back yhe 709 705 was nutch better.I mean mutch mutch mutch better. Rod ----- Original Message ----- From: <Rsoifer@aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] 707 Mike


Tnx for the info.  Further experimentation shows that I can back off  the
mic gain to 55 or 60 on SSB, but it still wants 75 or so on AM.  If I  go
past +12 dB of H/W mic gain, it begins to sound distorted, to my ears anyway.
One more thing I found is that setting the bass roll-off to  80 Hz, as
recommended, produces some popping sounds, again with my voice. Raising the
roll-off freq to 150 Hz cures the problem.

Anyone else have experience with the 707 mike?

73 Ray W2RS


In a message dated 6/30/2010 3:41:00 A.M. GMT Standard Time,
jruing@ameritech.net writes:

That  makes perfect sense to me, as I believe your new microphone has a
dynamic  type of microphone element, whereas you indicate your previous
microphone  has an electret condenser type element.  Dynamic mics
typically have  a substantially lower output signal strength (sometimes
referred to as  "open circuit voltage"  or "open circuit sensitivity")
than electret  condenser mic elements, which typically run substantially
hotter - and  many computer type electret condensers run quite hot.

I would likely  boost the hardware gain a bit more, so that I could run
the rig mic gain  at about 50 % -  I am under the impression the rig AGC
likes it  better that way.   I will leave it to others to explain better
than I why, but that is what seems to work best in my  experience.

This is consistent with other applications - I used to test  microphones
and write product reviews for use with speech recognition  software and
encountered the same thing as you find with your  rig.

Hope this helps some.

=========================   K8JHR  ==============================



On 6/29/2010 8:10  PM, Rsoifer@aol.com wrote:

I have H/W mic gain set to 12 dB and  the front panel MIC  set to 75.
With
the 706 condenser  mike, I set H/W mic gain to 6 dB and  front panel MIC
to
 60.  I have a rather soft speaking voice, but the 707  seems to need  a
lot
more gain than the 706.

Does anyone else have  experience with this to share?

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