AKG Acoustics manual Polar pattern selector 1 on Perception 420 front

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Fig. 1: Polar pattern selector (1) on PERCEPTION 420 front.

tortion and built to resist high temperatures and humidity, the microphone will give excellent re- sults in a wide range of applications.

•Polar pattern selector: Selector 1 on the microphone front (refer to fig. 1) sets the micro- phone polar pattern to cardioid, omnidirection- al, or figure eight.

•Switchable preattenuation pad: Selector 2 on the microphone rear (refer to fig. 2) lets you increase the headroom by 20 dB for distortion- free close-in recording. The preattenuation pad prevents the microphone's output level, partic- ularly at low frequencies, from overloading the miniature transformers used in many mixer input stages, etc.

•Bass cut filter: Selector 3 on the microphone rear (refer to fig. 2) further reduces low-end distortion caused by footfall or wind noise, etc. The filter also minimizes the proximity effect that close-in miking from less than 4 inches

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Fig. 2: Preattenuation (2) and bass cut (3) switch- es on PERCEPTION 420 rear.

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