sE Electronics T2 Where a pad switch is fitted, this should only be used when the microphone is being used to record exceptionally loud sound sources that risk overloading the microphone preamplifier to which the microphone is connected, even when set to its minimum gain setting.LOW CUT Where fitted, the Low Cut switch activates a high-pass filter that reduces the amount of low frequencies in the output signal from the microphone. Low Cut may be used to reduce the amount of