Great that you asked Len about the 183s. According to Dan, he used to
modify and sell them.
I'm not getting an obvious peak at 10K. I've noticed a narrow bump
that centers around 8.3K. I hear it more as self noise rather than a
peak in the tones of the sound sources. The band is only a few
hundred cycles wide and similar to the noise one gets with better
mics and not widely dispersed as with other mics. I heard saw the
same phenom in Rich's recordings he posted, maybe others are getting
different results than I.
In post, I'm finding that I'm boosting in the 3K-8K range pretty
often to increase the presence. I would not describe the mic as
overly bright.
What's Len's general opinion of the 183's? Think he would he consider
modifying and selling them again? He'd be able to buy them in batch
and match em better than out luck of the draw. Rob D.
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At 1:23 PM +0000 2/12/05, digidandy wrote:
>I mentioned this mic to Len at Core Sound, and he claimed that the 5db
>peak at around 10Khz would be *very* noticeable when used in the field.
>
>(http://www.shure.com/images/response/fWL183_184_185_large.gif)
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>Is this correct?
>
>I won't be using it for bird/nature recording per se, maybe more for
>fx recording and engines ... and the occasional ambience recording of
>rooms, fields, etc.
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>> I've been wondering if we should say "very high" sensitivty. The
> > Shure WL-183 is spec'd at 40 dBV/Pa which is on par with the
> > Sennheiser mkh 60 isn't it?
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