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The microphone has a critical loud-spot
which is the point where it produces the maximum energy
from your speech into the system with the least amount of effort. The system has been carefully
designed and tuned around using the loud-spot (as part of its superior noise cancellation design) so
it
is important that you understand and use this loud-spot correctly.
Turn the bikes ignition on, after again checking and
making sure that no parts will fall onto the hot
exhaust etc. Get your assistant to hold one of the
passenger headset speakers over their ear, so that
they can monitor and learn what you are
experiencing, and also get them to hold the riders
headset ambient noise sensor, ready to blow hard
into the end.
While holding one of the riders headset speakers
over your own ear, place the
BEIGE SIDE of your
microphone AGAINST YOUR LIPS
and without
shouting, project your voice positively through it,
as if to someone 3 meters (10’) away. Try gently
moving the microphone around (with it still
touching your lips) while making a continuous
positive tone noise to find the microphone LOUD
SPOT (the loudest point).
You will know when you have found and used the
microphone loud spot because your voice will
reliably activate your VOX, and you know when
you have reliably activated your VOX because the
system has
SIDE-TONE
which amplifies your own
voice through your own speakers, but only when
activating your VOX, thus providing you with audio
confirmation of correct microphone and VOX use.
Remember; if you can hear your own voice
amplified through your own speakers then you are
operating your VOX and so you know that others
will be hearing what you hear.
Note; at the moment, while in relatively low noise
conditions, it is not so critical to find and use the
microphone loud-spot because the ambient noise
sensor (ANS) is not picking much noise up and so
the systems automatic VOX level control is set
very low to make is very easy to activate VOX,
however when you are riding at higher speeds and
in more noisier conditions, the ANS will detect this
extra noise and automatically adjust the VOX level
up to prevent helmet noise from accidently turning
the VOX on, at which time you will find it far more
important to use the critical microphone loud spot
properly and project your voice more positively through it, in order to reliably operate the higher VOX
setting. Of course when you are riding in higher noise conditions you will naturally (and without even
thinking about it) raise your voice and find operating the higher VOX level no harder than it is now,
so
long as you use the important microphone loud spot
.
To demonstrate this, so that you know what to expect, use the microphone loud-spot and count to
twenty, but when you get to about 6 get your assistant to blow hard into the end of the ambient noise
sensor. Notice how when the noise on the sensor made the VOX level rise you had to project more voice
energy into the microphone, and using the loud-spot became more important in order to help you keep
the VOX open. This is why finding and using the microphone loud spot is so important. The benefits of
what you are experiencing are that you have the most reliable and easiest to use VOX system available.
Remember; at the moment you are not in high noise conditions and so are not naturally raising your
voice as you would be when riding the bike at higher speeds, and so you have to think and force
yourself to speak louder to operate a higher VOX level. It will become natural when riding the bike. The
side-tone not only provides important audio confirmation of correct VOX and microphone loud-spot use,
but also lets you hear how loud you are speaking relative to helmet noise, and so helps you to naturally
speak at a relevant level according to varying noise conditions, which prevents unnecessary shouting.
It is important that you do NOT set your master volume control any higher than actually
required
(too far clockwise) because if the level of your own voice amplified to you own speakers is
too loud, it makes you want to speak at a lower level, which may not be enough to operate the VOX
properly. Setting your master volume control to an adequate level (that’s not any higher than required)
makes using the system much easier and more reliable. If you need to alter any other audio input
levels then this should be done using the audio devices own volume control, and not by using the
master volume controls. After setting everything up only use the master volume controls to compensate
for using earplugs, monitor ear plugs or no earplugs.
Top Tips (2)
Fine tune and perfect using the microphone loud-spot by listening to the sound of your voice through
the speakers while carefully moving the microphone around until it is at its very loudest point. Also
try this while someone is blowing onto the ANS and notice how it can help if you pucker your lips to
the microphone as if kissing it, while speaking. After a short while this all becomes natural, especially
when riding the bike in more noisy conditions.
If you are now comfortable with finding and using the microphone loud spot and operating the VOX
reliably, even when someone blows hard on to the ANS, turn the ignition off while we now help you
experience the importance of speaker positioning.
MICROPHONE LOUD SPOT POSITIONING AND USE
You must speak into
the beige side of the
microphone
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