[TenTec] Orion ll Audio

[Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX]

Gene brings up a good point.  Audio equalizers are often mis-used to correct 
poor microphone response, or poor room acoustics or create some desirable 
effect apart from the natural.  Personally, from experience, audio 
equalizers used in an attempt to correct poor microphone response usually 
results in poor microphone response sounding equalized.  Equalizers won't 
correct poor room acoustics either but modification of the room will.

And then there is simply poor microphone technique.  I've seen instances 
where operators will sit back 12 to 18 inches from the microphone and wonder 
why their voice sounds bad.  It is typically due to a blend of room noise, 
room reflectivity and the operators voice resulting in a noisy hollow sound 
lacking in presence.   And then there is the operator that virtually puts 
the mike in his mouth.  The result is lip smacks, throat noise, popped P's 
and huffed H's and denture buzz.

A proper microphone in a good room and a mike used correctly will generally 
sound good.  Feed that into a clean audio chain and one will have good 
audio.  A poor mike and one used improperly fed into a good audio chain will 
produce poor audio.

Your mileage will vary.

73
Bob, K4TAX
A connoisseur of fine radios




> Just wondering from what I have been reading about the poor audio reports 
> some of you have been getting, how many of you are using Audio Equalizers. 
> ???
> I have had nothing but good reports.
>
> Gene WB9HLA