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Q Why does my mic have a high-pass filter? I’m trying to figure out when to use the low-pass and high-pass filters on a microphone. Can you please offer me some advice? SOS Forum post Sam Inglis, Editor In Chief Very few mics have low-pass filters. If they do, it’s typically because the mic itself is inherently quite bright and the manufacturer wants to offer a more mellow, vintage voicing as an option. So you might engage the filter if what you were capturing was sounding harsh, scratchy or overly sibilant for example. High-pass filters are much more common and much more useful. They all cut low end from the signal that’s captured, but there are two basic use cases for this, which typically suit slightly different settings. Sometimes you find yourself recording something that just…

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