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Shockwave,
Yep, I was aware that the audio takes a different path on SSB, and since you're going to be transmitting on technically narrower bandwidth, you're not going to gain as much from the cap modifications as much on SSB than you will on AM, since the audio goes into the balanced modulator stage instead of the audio IC. That's why I haven't gone too crazy with changing out/modifying all the caps in the mic preamp stages... just some minor treaks on a couple of caps. I do have a small increase in bass response on SSB, but a fair bit of that comes from the mic itself. Besides, I don't want to have too much bass on SSB, as that can make the SSB audio sound too bassy and flat, like you're running too much compression. That's why I am happy with what I have done currently with my setup.

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<blockquote data-quote="ExitThirteen" data-source="post: 505857" data-attributes="member: 6878">Shockwave,Yep, I was aware that the audio takes a different path on SSB, and since you&#039;re going to be transmitting on technically narrower bandwidth, you&#039;re not going to gain as much from the cap modifications as much on SSB than you will on AM, since the audio goes into the balanced modulator stage instead of the audio IC. That&#039;s why I haven&#039;t gone too crazy with changing out/modifying all the caps in the mic preamp stages... just some minor treaks on a couple of caps. I do have a small increase in bass response on SSB, but a fair bit of that comes from the mic itself. Besides, I don&#039;t want to have too much bass on SSB, as that can make the SSB audio sound too bassy and flat, like you&#039;re running too much compression. That&#039;s why I am happy with what I have done currently with my setup. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />~Cheers~</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExitThirteen, post: 505857, member: 6878"] Shockwave, Yep, I was aware that the audio takes a different path on SSB, and since you're going to be transmitting on technically narrower bandwidth, you're not going to gain as much from the cap modifications as much on SSB than you will on AM, since the audio goes into the balanced modulator stage instead of the audio IC. That's why I haven't gone too crazy with changing out/modifying all the caps in the mic preamp stages... just some minor treaks on a couple of caps. I do have a small increase in bass response on SSB, but a fair bit of that comes from the mic itself. Besides, I don't want to have too much bass on SSB, as that can make the SSB audio sound too bassy and flat, like you're running too much compression. That's why I am happy with what I have done currently with my setup. :) ~Cheers~ [/QUOTE]

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