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Originally Posted by Tomer1  In solidstate mics its usually the electronics who distort not the capsule hense a pad is placed before the electronics (generally speaking), reducing the sensitivity of the microphone allowing for higher SPL.
Putting a pad on the mic output is just like putting it on the pre input...
Better to leave the cost of the parts to the preamp manufacturer fuuck
Regarding preamp,
sometimes a microphone can generate such "hot" signal it distorts the mic pre input even with minimal gain and remember that most mics do not have Pads.
This is not "warm" distortion type of sound but more of a nasty cliping,this is evident especially in a transformless front end designs.
An output pad is usualy placed in order to allow driving of an output transformer. |
Thanks so much for your insight
