I sent my 707 back yhe 709 705 was nutch better.I mean mutch mutch mutch
better. Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: <Rsoifer@aol.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
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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