Before The Soundcheck; Microphone Technique; Working Distance And Proximity Effect - AKG WMS40 Mode D'emploi

3.5 Before the Soundcheck

1. Move the transmitter around the area
where you will use the system to
check the area for "dead spots", i.e.,
places where the field strength seems
to drop and reception deteriorates.
If you find any dead spots, try to elim-
inate them by repositioning the
receiver. If this does not help, avoid
the dead spots.
2. The RF LED on the receiver going out
means no signal is being received or
the squelch is active.
Switch power to the transmitter ON
and/or move closer to the receiver, to
the point that the RF LED on the
receiver will come back on.
4 Microphone
Technique
A handheld vocal microphone
provides many ways of shaping
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the sound of your voice as it is heard
over the sound system.
The following sections contain useful
hints on how to use your HT 40 hand-
held transmitter for best results.
4.1 Working Distance and Proximity
Effect
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 reverberation.
You can use this effect to make your voice
sound aggressive, neutral, insinuating, etc.
simply by changing your working distance.
Proximity effect is a more or less
dramatic boost of low frequencies that
occurs when you sing into the micro-
phone from less than 2 inches. It gives
more "body" to your voice and an
intimate, bass-heavy sound.
4.2 Angle of Incidence (See fig. 4)
Fig. 4: Angle of incidence
Sing to one side of the microphone or
above and across the microphone's top.