The Importance of Microphone Frequency Response

Talk of microphones usually revolves around the type (condenser or dynamic) and the polar pattern (cardioid, omni-directional, etc.), but there is more to a microphone.  The "more" is the microphone's Frequency Response. Microphones differ in the way in which they respond to different frequencies.  They might boost a frequency or reduce it depending on the purpose for which the microphone was designed.  (Also depending on the ideas the designers had in mind!)  They might not alter the [keep reading]