User Manual

Microphone Manual

Using Your Microphone

Many models come with a precision-built exible shock mount to minimize the effect of oor-borne

vibrations reaching the microphone through the stand. When recording vocals at close range, you

should use an external mesh pop screen to prevent low frequency thumps caused by air expelled from

the mouth on certain syllables. Your pop screen should be placed midway between the singer’s mouth

and the microphone for close-miked vocals but should not be necessary when using the microphone

to record voices more than 1 metre from the microphone or when recording musical instruments. To

avoid room reections, microphones should be set up away from hard walls and surfaces - or if this is

unavoidable, a Reexion Filter™ can come in handy.

Pad Switch

Where a pad switch is tted, this should only be used when the microphone is being used to record

exceptionally loud sound sources that risk overloading the microphone preamplier to which the

microphone is connected, even when set to its minimum gain setting.

Low Cut

Where tted, the Low Cut switch activates a high-pass lter that reduces the amount of low

frequencies in the output signal from the microphone. Low Cut may be used to reduce the amount of

bass boost caused by the proximity effect when working very close to the microphone or to to exclude

low frequency signals, such as trac and oor vibrations where the signal being recorded has little or

no deep bass content.

Operating your microphone

All capacitor microphones, other than tube models, require a phantom power supply (48V nominal),

normally provided by the mixing console or mic preamp to which the microphone is connected.

Phantom power can only be used with balanced microphones and balanced cables and will not cause

damage to dynamic microphones plugged into the same mixing console providing they are balanced

and connected using balanced cables.

Switch on the phantom power supply after connecting the microphone as repeated plugging and

unplugging of a microphone with the phantom power switched on may eventually degrade the

components in your microphone preamplier or mixing console.

Before switching on any tube microphone for the rst time, ensure that the mains voltage selector is

set correctly for the local mains supply. Tube microphones should also be switched on 30 minutes

prior to use to achieve optimum performance.

Accessories

For information on available accessories (pop shields, mic stands, etc), please visit our website.