Controls - AKG C214 Bedienungsanleitung

1 Description

1.4 Controls

The C 214 provides selector switches for the preattenuation pad and bass cut
filter.
1 Preattenuation Selector
The selector switch on the left-hand side of the microphone (fig. 1) lets you in-
crease the microphone's headroom by 20 dB for distortion-free recordings of very
loud sound sources or close to sound sources. The preattenuation pads prevent
the microphone's output level, particularly at low frequencies, from overloading
the miniature transformers used in mixer input stages, etc.
Fig. 1: Preattenuation selector.
2 Bass Cut Selector
Rumbling or wind noise may cause distortion at very low frequencies. The micro-
phone's switchable bass cut filter (refer to fig. 2) further reduces low-end distor-
tion. The filter slope is more than 6 dB/octave at 160 Hz and below. The bass cut
also minimizes the proximity effect that may arise when close-in miking from less
than 6 inches.
Fig. 2: Bass cut selector.
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