OK, this question might be a little hard to understand...

I have a question about the "components" of the frequency roll-off
procedure. If you look at the microphone, there is a little dial-like piece
that has 5 selections for 5 different settings of roll-off. It looks
something like this S - - - M. My question is: "What do the S and the M
mean???"

-Luther in ND

"Luther" wrote in message
...
OK, this question might be a little hard to understand...

I have a question about the "components" of the frequency roll-off
procedure. If you look at the microphone, there is a little dial-like
piece
that has 5 selections for 5 different settings of roll-off. It looks
something like this S - - - M. My question is: "What do the S and the M
mean???"

S for speech. M for music. If there is a third position that uses S&M
simultaneously, then the microphone is used for something else entirely not
necessarily associated with audio.

Steve King

I believe the "M" position is flat frequency response and the "S" is
the most servere low cut on the mic. The three positions in between
are incresing amounts of low cut with the "S" postion the most low cut
availalb.e

Best,
Chris
wavetrap

"Luther" wrote in message ...
OK, this question might be a little hard to understand...

I have a question about the "components" of the frequency roll-off
procedure. If you look at the microphone, there is a little dial-like piece
that has 5 selections for 5 different settings of roll-off. It looks
something like this S - - - M. My question is: "What do the S and the M
mean???"

-Luther in ND

In article writes:

If you look at the microphone, there is a little dial-like piece
that has 5 selections for 5 different settings of roll-off. It looks
something like this S - - - M. My question is: "What do the S and the M
mean???"

Speech and Music (or their German equivalents). The idea is that for
speech, you need to roll off the low frequency response to reduce the
bass boost from proximity effect and plosives. For music, you want the
flattest frequency response with no bass rolloff. The intermediate
positions are different bass rolloff characteristics.

I don't know how the curve shapes have changed over the years and
different versions of the general "421" models, but just for
illustrative purposes, though it's kind of fuzzy when you blow it up
big enough to see it, you can see a frequency response plot showing
the different rolloff characteristics he

http://buy.sennheiserusa.com/ASP/Sen...df/md421ii.pdf


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Luther wrote:
OK, this question might be a little hard to understand...

I have a question about the "components" of the frequency roll-off
procedure. If you look at the microphone, there is a little dial-like piece
that has 5 selections for 5 different settings of roll-off. It looks
something like this S - - - M. My question is: "What do the S and the M
mean???"

Speech and Music. (Or the German equivalents.)
--scott
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