On the Wave 1, which retails for $139, it controls the headphone volume and mute function.
The main visible difference between the two comes with the functions built into the clickable control dial. The Wave comes in two variants, the Wave 1 and Wave 3. These aren’t dealbreakers, but for the price, I would have loved to see metal throughout like the Yeti or AT2020. The mic body and control dial are plastic, though, which feels cheaper in the hand than many of its competitors. The stand is also metal and accounts for more than half the weight of the whole package to stay in place on your desk. The grill surrounding the capsule is a rigid metal with very little flex even when squeezed.
Despite its small size, it feels sturdy enough. The overall design is sleek and seems made to blend right into the background on your face cam. It inherits the rectangular look of Lewitt’s microphone line but thinner, which lends it an uncommon look in the streaming world. It’s also quite light at only 590g, so you won’t need a bulky boom arm to hold its weight. It’s dwarfed by the other stream favorite mics, like the Blue Yeti or HyperX Quadcast, but a touch larger than the Audio-Technica AT2020. It’s fairly small, coming in just over eight inches when mounted on its stand (six, if we’re looking at the microphone by itself) and trimmed almost entirely in black. It would be best to have these lines terminated in their nominal impedance to avoid amplitude/phase-variation when switching the length….Design and FeaturesThe Elgato Wave 3 is an unassuming microphone.
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I guess, one marked improvement would be to switch in a couple of delay line options in the Ant 2 line reference path, trying to reach the full 360 degree phase range. Also probably phase and amplitude are not independent, so optimization for each instant is an iterative process (multiple subsequent “visits” to the potentiometers). You may have a more precise analysis from your SPICE-model, but if I look at the schematic it appears as if the phase adjustment is not able to make the full 360 degree circle. Actually I have PCB of a DK9NL v.1.0 version, and I see that the schematic (dated ) is almost identical to yours (the RA0-version having just the protection diodes doubled, two in series). I would badly need an X-phase eliminator for a few of my operating sites. Of your technical subjects are very close to my interests. I subscribed to your blog, while almost all My first posting was in October regarding PEX-loops. (X-Phase does not have RF sensing such as used in the ANC-4.
A PTT input is available to switch the circuit when transmitting. When power is applied, the relays switch the signals through the X-Phase circuit. Normally, when powered off, the main antenna goes through normally closed contacts direct to the output. Two relays let you use the device with a ham transmitter. The gain pots are actually just variable attenuators to reduce the signal entering each of two FET amplifiers. One of these adjusts the phase from the secondary antenna before it is mixed. Two of these adjust the amplitude of each antenna. Your circuit board contains three potentiometers. Normally, you would have signals from your main antenna and a separate noise probe, but you can add signals from any two antennas, including wideband loops. Along the way, you can adjust the amplitude of signals from each antenna separately, and also change the phase with which one of the antennas is mixed with the other. If you want to follow the schematic you will find it here. In this article, I will talk about the circuit itself.