Handbook for Sound Engineers

572 Chapter 16 Quantity and Frequency Coordination. Determine how many wireless microphones, wireless monitor systems, intercoms ...

Microphones 573 battery life of transmitters and portable receivers. By driving the RF amplifier with a better efficiency, the o ...

574 Chapter 16 reducing pops and bursts from certain consonant sounds in speech. 16.12.1.3 Sabine Phantom Mic Rider Series 1 The ...

Microphones 575 nates a compandor to increase audio quality and expand the applications to test and measurement and musical inst ...

576 Chapter 16 16.12.2 Windscreens and Pop Filters A windscreen is a device placed over the exterior of a microphone for the pur ...

Microphones 577 microphone. However, in a strong gale a small devia- tion from a perfect flat response may be insignificant for ...

578 Chapter 16 dard worldwide in TV. A Softy attenuates the wind noise about 24 dB, Fig. 16-163B. Adding a Windjammer (furry cov ...

Microphones 579 mount suspensions allow a microphone to stay still while the support moves. Suspensions all use a springy arrang ...

580 Chapter 16 there are practical limitations. The resonant frequency (fn) of a mechanical system can be computed from (16-32) ...

Microphones 581 To determine the correct suspension systems for microphones of various manufacturers, go to http://www.microphon ...

582 Chapter 16 roll off the low or high end, increase the 3–5 kHz articu- lation region, or reverse polarity. These units normal ...

Microphones 583 track tape machine. Sound reinforcement practice usually requires good isolation of the various sound sources. I ...

584 Chapter 16 It would seem that the condenser microphone would always be the best choice, but other factors must be considered ...

Microphones 585 Just as the musician is a vital element in obtaining a good sound, the drums themselves must be in good conditio ...

586 Chapter 16 microphones without the overhead microphones even being on. The amount of cymbal leakage will be deter- mined mos ...

grand or upright piano, keep in mind that the sounding board and not the hammers and strings is the source of most of the sound. ...

588 Chapter 16 hinges that can be easily removed for this purpose.) Fairly distant micing may also sound good. 16.13.4.4 Vocals ...

Microphones 589 16.13.4.6 Group Vocals A vocal group could consist of two singers or a chorus of several hundred. For a small gr ...

590 Chapter 16 together as possible and angled toward opposite sides of the lectern, Fig. 16-184. The outputs can be summed with ...

Microphones 591 the necessary individual section microphones may be brought into the mix. In many practically sized rooms, it is ...