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Re: Esoteric Mic Builds: Multi-style Capsule SASS

Subject: Re: Esoteric Mic Builds: Multi-style Capsule SASS
From: "Peter Shute" pshute2
Date: Wed Feb 28, 2018 3:14 pm ((PST))
This is true, although I would have thought most heterodyne detectors work =
up to 10kHz or more either side of the chosen frequency. Fine if you know w=
hat frequency to set. I suggested it because they're cheap.=0D
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My experience with frequency division is that although it picks up a much w=
ider range, it generally sounds worse than heterodyne because the signal is=
 so processed. Some sound much worse than others.=0D
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Playing back at reduced speed means you can't mix in "normal" frequency sou=
nds, because they sound too weird. I would prefer to apply heterodyne or fr=
equency division processing to the high frequencies before mixing them back=
 in.=0D
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Peter Shute=0D
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> As for the heterodyne detectors, I would discourage using them. They=0D
> produce an audible output signal only when the incoming signal is few kHz=
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> around the selected frequency thus producing a highly partial and distort=
ed=0D
> output signal. Bat detectors based on frequency division are for sure muc=
h=0D
> better. The best option remains the full bandwidth recording and then the=
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> slow speed playback to make them longer and lower in frequency, thus well=
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> audible by our "slow" ears.=0D





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