Out of phase
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mshilarious
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Most manufacturers try to ensure that positive pressure on the diaphragm = positive voltage on pin 2. Every Shure I've ever tested is that way, for example. So go with the big boys, and make the others match them.
If they are group buy mics, check the silk screening. Mine are actually in phase, but one of the bodies is silk screened 180 degrees wrong making me THINK it was out of phase, but not. Recording a fingersnap in fig8 on both sides will show you which is +. It will be the "rising" waveform in your DAW.
Not from gb but chinese. I´m nowadays paranoid so I doubt my Oktava
and esp. my M7 capsule mic, but they are in phase between them.
Why these strange new Alctron mics would be different...
Matti
gb was too much for me, so I retired from there but still paranoid
P.S drbill I´ll do that, thanks!
and esp. my M7 capsule mic, but they are in phase between them.
Why these strange new Alctron mics would be different...
Matti
gb was too much for me, so I retired from there but still paranoid
P.S drbill I´ll do that, thanks!
mshilarious
Banned
Not necessarily, you need to be careful about that. Some sounds do start with rarefaction (negative pressure). I am not saying that is what happens with a cigarette lighter (I don't have one here to test), but it could. Hence, always test against a known good polarity microphone, or a known good polarity signal generator (with a sawtooth wave, or something similarly asymetrical).
That said, given the mics in question, I would suspect Audio 2 is reverse polarity as well. And there are popular brands of measurement mics that are reverse polarity. It's a crazy world out there!
