I'm here to pick technical nits ... I have neither Senn MKH mics nor Rode m=
ics.
I do have an Edirol R-1, and a SD 722 on order.
Klas Strandberg wrote:
> 2/ Electrets (which also are condensor mic's!) are less sensitive, mainly=
> because there is no polarizing voltage applied on the membrane.
Actually, there is a polarizing voltage with respect to the backplate.
It's just from a permanently trapped charge in the backplate, and not
a voltage from an external source.
> 3/ MKH line is something else: There is no polarizing voltage, neither is=
> there an extreme input impedance. Instead, the membrane/electrode
> configuration is just a variable resistor which determines the frequency =
of
> an oscillator...
This is wrong. The diaphragm is *not* a variable resistor. It's a variabl=
e
capacitor just like any other condensor mic. And there is a polarizing vol=
tage,
it's just that it's AC (and RF frequency AC, at that). So the average
polarizing voltage is zero, but the RMS voltage is non-zero. But yes, the
diaphragm movement does change the frequency of a resonant circuit.
-- Mike Feldman
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