#1 Microphone gain settings on a transmitter
Hi friends, In most television shoots in Mumbai, India, we use Sennheiser G3 or G2 transmitters. I have come across many engineers, who set the input gain settings incorrectly on a transmitter.The tendency is to set it pretty high, with the result that when the talent shouts or screams, the transmitter input stage gets overloaded with a very hot signal, which it cannot avoid but DISTORT. It is this DISTORTED signal which is transmitted and received by the receiver. Once heavily distorted, it cannot be repaired and made UNDISTORTED. On so many television shows, specially the daily soap type of shows in India, we hear badly distorted sound on telecast. This reflects poorly about our quality standards. If enough headroom is kept at the transmitter input stage, we can very easily avoid distortion. The best way to set levels on a transmitter is by speaking loudly (or even shouting loudly) at the mic and then watching if the input is clipping or peaking on the transmitter. If clipping...