-----Original Message----- From: Jimmy Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:47 AM To: 'Edwin Marzan' Subject: RE: [Flexradio] The inherent muddiness of typical amateur transceiver audio without EQ
Bandwidth Ed............. You can't expect to sound like Walter Cronkite using 2.1k transmit bandwidth and it isn't going to happen at 3k either. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin Marzan Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 9:51 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] The inherent muddiness of typical amateur transceiver audio without EQ Greetings all, A couple of days ago I used my Heil PR20 to record a voice over for a video I was working on. When I played back the recording I was shocked to hear how clear and natural my voice sounded with the PR20. There was no EQ or processing applied to the audio, just the mike plugged straight into my Edirol FA66 sound card and played back into a decent pair of computer speakers. The same mike when used with my SDR-1000 does not give anywhere near the same results. Without heavy equalization using PowerSDR I have been described as sounding like pillows were placed over the mike. I was thinking that perhaps this wasn't a good selection for my SDR-1000. After hearing my recording for the voice over I'm thinking differently. Isn't it the job of the microphone to reproduce the sound as close as possible to the source as it did during the recording? I figured as a baseline my SDR1000 should sound clear without muddiness before equalization is applied. The EQ in my view should be used as an enhancement to the audio or in certain cases to make up for the deficiencies of a poorly designed microphone. So, my mike appears to be more than adequate for audio applications, why does it require massive EQ to sound decent as a transmitter audio source? Does it have anything to do with transmitter bandwith, etc? I'm thinking of purchasing the W2IHY boxes but if I was only able to get the audio to sound as good as the mike reproduces it (without EQ) I would be a happy camper. Still love the radio, though! Any thoughts?Edwin MarzanAB2VW _________________________________________________________________ E-mail for the greater good. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
