Using Your Microphone; Angle Of Incidence - AKG C 900 Mode D'emploi

A handheld vocal microphone provides many ways of shaping
the sound of your voice as it is heard over the sound system.
The following sections contain useful hints on how to use your
microphone for best results.
The following sections apply to both the hardwire C 900
the wireless version with an optional TM 40 transmitter module
installed.
Basically, your voice will sound the bigger and mellower, the
closer you hold the microphone to your lips. Moving away from
the microphone will produce a more reverberant, more distant
sound as the microphone will pick more of the room's rever-
beration.
You can use this effect to make your voice sound aggressive,
neutral, insinuating, etc. simply by changing your working dis-
tance.
Proximity effect is a more or less dramatic boost of low fre-
quencies that occurs when you sing into the microphone from
less than 2 inches. It gives more "body" to your voice and an
intimate, bass-heavy sound.
Sing to one side of the micro-
phone or above and across
the microphone's top. This
provides a well-balanced, nat-
ural sound.
If you sing directly into the
microphone, it will not only
pick up excessive breath
noise but also overemphasize
"sss", "sh", "tch", "p", and "t"
sounds.
Feedback is the
result of part of
the sound project-
ed by a speaker
being picked up
by a microphone,
fed to the amplifi-
er, and projected
again by the
speaker. Above a
specific volume or
"system gain"
setting called
the feedback

3 Using Your Microphone

3.1 Introduction
M and
3.2 Working
Distance and
Proximity Effect
3.3 Angle of
Incidence
Fig. 7: Typical
microphone
position.
3.4 Feedback
Fig. 8: Microphone
placement for maxi-
mum gain before
feedback.
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