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Keith G wrote:
Judge for yourselves - here are two 'identical' clips (end of one track,
beginning of another) of extremely complex/crowded music recorded OPEN
MIC with only a peewee little lapel mic (all I got) with digital/SS
everything except the power amp on the EX3 clip, which is 300B SET
valve. No editing whatsoever, other than a Fade In and Out at the ends
to lessen the shock!

Without even listening, Keith, do yourself a favour and get a half decent
mic for this sort of test.

Lapel mics have a tailored frequency response to help with the fact that
they are in a poor position for speech. They have bass rolloff to counter
chest resonance, and mid range boost to try and improve intelligibility.
And often nothing at all at the HF end since it isn't necessary.

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*Filthy stinking rich -- well, two out of three ain't bad

Dave Plowman London SW
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