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Old Fri Mar 06, 2015, 04:36pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef View Post
It's the air from the whistle that stops the clock, not the sound of the whistle. You can blow directly into the microphone and the clock stops.
The mic isn't close enough to the whistle for the air coming through the whistle to even affect it.

Microphones detect sound, that's it. Blowing across the microphone opening at very close range to test them just happens to make a very loud sound across a wide spectrum of frequencies.....similar to the actual sound of the whistle.
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