Using Your Microphone; General Hints - AKG Acoustics PERCEPTION 100 Mode D'emploi

4 Using Your
Microphone

4.1 General Hints

The PERCEPTION 100 and PERCEPTION
200 are general-purpose cardioid micro-
phones for recording, broadcast, and
onstage use.
Every instrument radiates its sound in a
specific way. Therefore, to get the best
sound it is crucial to experiment with
microphone placement.
The following hints apply to both the
PERCEPTION 100 and PERCEPTION 200.
• The front of the microphone is the
side of the body with the AKG logo
on it. Therefore, always aim the logo
at the sound source you are going to
record!
Being a unidirectional (cardioid) mi-
crophone, the PERCEPTION will pick
up very little sound from the rear.
PERCEPTION 100/200
PERCEPTION 100 PERCEPTION 200
Fig. 4: Microphone front.
• When recording wind instruments or
vocals, make sure not to blow or
sing directly into the microphone.
To avoid unwanted wind and pop
noise or moisture problems, place an
optional PF 80 pop screen from AKG
between the microphone and vocal-
ist/instrument.
• Keep the microphone dry. Moisture
from blowing or singing directly at the
capsule from a short distance, or
extremely high humidity may cause
the microphone to start crackling or
go very quiet due to partial short cir-
cuits in the polarization voltage.
• If you use the microphone in the
open air, use an optional AKG
W 4000 windscreen to protect the
microphone from moisture and re-
duce wind noise.
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