Microphones & aspirated consonants

September 8, 2006
Filed under: en, linguistics 

During Euralex, I’ve noticed how the microphones don’t cope well with aspirated consonants. They’re fine when people speak Italian or French into them, but give them English or Danish, and all the initial /p/s, /t/s and /k/s have unpleasant acustic effects when the puff of air reaches the microphone.

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2 Responses to “Microphones & aspirated consonants”

  1. Sebastian on September 8th, 2006 19:42

    That’s old news ;) It’s therefore you (always) see these big yellow/black or whatever windcaps on microphones around. They protect the sounds and reduces the puffs.

  2. Thomas on September 10th, 2006 18:12

    Sure, but my point was that certain languages seem be OK with cheaper microphones.

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