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Evaluating the Audix D6
From the course: Microphone Techniques: Essentials
Evaluating the Audix D6
- [Instructor] Here's the frequency response chart for an Audix D-6. Audix calls this their kick drum microphone, and when you look at the frequency response chart, it's completely different than anything else we've seen. It has a big bump in the high end here around five or six K, and it really carves out, it's not sensitive to these mid frequencies. With a kick drum, if you want to have a kick drum that sounds round and clean and full, you usually take out these frequencies right around 4 or 500 Hz. And also with a kick drum, you usually end up putting a little bit of a low frequency bump in just to give it some power in the low end. So this microphone does naturally what you would do with EQ if you had a flat responding microphone. If you were to take a microphone like one of the first microphones we looked at, you would have to create this kind of EQ curve using EQ which is really not always the best way to get a sound. You're really better off to use mic choice and mic technique…
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Reading the frequency response chart4m 36s
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The proximity effect1m 30s
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Evaluating the Neumann KM 84 and KM 1841m 52s
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Evaluating the Shure SM582m 27s
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Evaluating the Royer R-122 MKII2m 14s
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Evaluating the Audix D61m 20s
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Evaluating the Shure Beta 872m 9s
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Blind evaluations of three mics3m 17s
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Polar graphs and sensitivity2m 12s
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Polar pattern shapes5m 7s
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Demonstration of polar patterns4m 32s
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Frequency variations2m 31s
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Sensitivity6m 46s
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Impedance1m 3s
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Equivalent noise1m 38s
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Maximum sound pressure level (SPL)4m 8s
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