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From: Pete Brunelli
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:42:58 -0400
Subject: Re:Tone Junkyisms

At 08:07 AM 7/25/96 -0800, you wrote:
>At 9:15 AM 7/25/96, Pete Brunelli wrote:
> Some
>>of my better sounds have come thru war surplus carbon mic elements
>
>With a carbon element, don't you have to apply an AC voltage to it for it
>to work?

Not on the one that i use. It is from an old WWII surplus headset and i ran
it right into a 1/4" jack.

>Telephones use carbon mics (at least the old ones di) and I LOVE the way
>harp sounds over the telephone. I think it would be way cool to use an old
>phone mouthpiece to make the "death sound".

The downside is that you will have some severe tonal rolloff at both ends.
It sounds good through some systems because it presents a narrower range of
freqs to the amp. This is common in communications systems audio chains
where the dynamics and frequency range must be kept stable to keep
modulation/deviation under control without extra limiting circuitry.


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