soapfoot
Well-known member
On a recent thread, @kingkorg said something that interested me:
This makes complete sense, but honestly had never occurred to me before!
I have some follow-up questions:
I've been struggling for the longest time with multi pattern mics because of remaining charges on capsules even when pattern is changed. Sometimes there is no path for the capsule to discharge depending on topology. There is good chance everyone has been using a wide (or hyper) cardioid while they were thinking they were using cardioid. And suddenly the day after the mic sounds different.
This makes complete sense, but honestly had never occurred to me before!
I have some follow-up questions:
- To determine whether a given mic would be susceptible to this, what would I look for in the schematic?
- Or, if someone has already done that work--are there any notable mics that exhibit this phenomenon to a particularly large degree?
- Which components would I look at to calculate the time constant of the discharge?