User Manual

8
Modeled Mic Section
Here’s where the fun really starts. The MODELED MIC section is where you select the mic (and its
settings) whose characteristics you want to apply to your audio.
Modeled Mic Menu
The Modeled Mic pop-up menu is used to
select your desired mic. In some cases a mic
will have a second listing with “(w)” appended
to the mic’s name. This indicates that the mic
we modeled was supplied with a windscreen
and this is the model of the mic with the
windscreen attached. If you wish to simulate
the use of the windscreen, you should select
this version of the model.
Additionally, the menu offers a selection called
“Bypass.” When Bypass is selected, no
mic model is applied. The net sonic effect of
selecting Bypass here depends on the setting
of the Source Mic menu:
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If the correct source mic is selected in the
Source Mic menu and Bypass is selected
in the Modeled Mic menu, the final output
of Mic Mod EFX will be stripped of the
characteristics of the source mic, resulting in
the signal that would have been recorded by
an ideal instrumentation microphone with no
proximity effect.
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If Bypass is selected in the Source Mic menu
and Bypass is selected in the Modeled Mic
menu, the final output of Mic Mod EFX will
be identical to the original input signal (with
the exception of any added tube saturation).
Low-Cut Menu
If the mic you select in the Modeled Mic menu
is equipped with a user-selectable low-cut filter,
the Low-Cut pop-up menu will allow you to
select from among the filter settings available
on that mic. (If the selected mic does not have
a low-cut filter, the menu will be grayed out.)
If the modeled mic does include a low-cut filter,
selecting a low-cut setting will reproduce the
same effect that selecting that setting would
have on the actual modeled mic.
NOTE: The setting labels that appear
in the menu are those that appear
on the physical mic. In some cases,
the label is the cut-off frequency of the low-cut
filter as specified by the mic’s manufacturer.
However, Mic Mod EFX does not simply apply
a generic low-cut filter at the stated frequency,