Crown CM-700 user manual

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Mic Memo
Mic Memo
Crown’s Quarterly Microphone Newsletter Fall 2002 Bruce Bartlett, Editor
CM-700 Chosen for “Dream” Studios
if the room acoustics are very
CM-700 for
dead. Otherwise the mics pick
up a lot of room reverb which
Stage Vocals
muddies the sound. Also, ceil-
ing mics work poorly for sound
Although the CM-700 was not
reinforcement. The distance
designed to be a stage-vocal
from mic to source is just too
mic, it can be made to

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Mic Memo the handheld mics. What sort of • Ground loops can create hum. Harp Miking equalization is needed to do • You might be held liable for Here's an unusal miking applica- this? messing with the organ electron- tion for sound reinforcement. ics. How do you mike a folk harp? It First, note that nearly all hand- • The organ technician might is a small instrument about 4 held vocal mics are directional, remove the connection. feet tall. so they have proximity effect

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Mic Memo we'd recommend using the bat- The PZM-185 has a high-fre- Letters From tery rather than phantom. quency rise for speech clarity. If you want to flatten the response Crown Mic Figure 1 shows some suggested to get a more natural sound, places to tape a PZM mic to the obtain a microphone foam wind- Users underside of the raised piano lid. screen. Cut off a 1/4" square For a mono recording with one about 1/8" thick and insert it into PZM Piano Miking mic, tape i

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Mic Memo PZM Piano Miking stereo mini phone plug (Figure CM-311AE Fan (Continued from page 3) 3). On the mic end of both I just purchased the CM-311AE cables, wire a female XLR con- and I am so pleased with the Inside the female XLR connec- nector as described above. At headset, that I have placed a tor, connect pin 1 to the cable the other end of both cables, link to your site on our band's shield, connect pin 2 to the connect both shields to the site. cable center co