On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Miller Puckette wrote:
I've tried clapping into mics and cant get consistent results -- the burst of air goes in all different directions and I could never get a consistent sound into the mic at all.
"burst of air" sounds like a very low frequency impulse... if you can't rely on that part of the sound to be the same, you have to remove it, so that you are left with the part of the sound that is reliable, so that [bonk~] reacts reliably.
if the very low freqs are too much for the mic... because the lower freqs have inane amplitudes for their amount of energy... then what physical device constitutes an acoustic highpass filter that can remove the distorsion ? something that e.g. can remove much of the effect of wind blowing into a mic when trying to record outdoors... i don't know that stuff.
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i just looked up "pop filter" when seeing that word in cgc's reply, and it seems like it's a highpass filter, though it doesn't use those words in the description I read, but I guess it from what they say about clipping and aspirated plosives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_filter
but this article is weird, because it mentions the hiss but doesn't say what a pop filter does about hiss...
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