Not on their own, but using as MS i’m noticing a touch more noise or maybe I mean graininess.
This is on quiet sources like solo classical guitar, or harp, or ambient/nature recordings.
On those, noise is exposed.
There, I’ve noticed I’ve preferred the AB pair of omnis, same mic bodies.
It’s not a fair comparison, though, and should be disregarded.
BUT I will say I’ve never had the results I really wanted from MS, but this may be because I prefer the sound of 2 spaced omnis over any coincident setup (excluding ambisonics). It could be me, my preference, or it could be genre-centric with most of my work being classical stuff.
Since one may not want to be that limiting to their craft, I usually roll with 2+ setups on a bar - like ORTF with an AB omni on the bar, or the addition of spots/flanks/outriggers to the main pair.
Like without the omnis, or at least one in the picture, I feel the absence of low freq and it’s in that way more pleasing to listen back to the recording with an omni(s). Not always, but for example, as was mentioned above - the organ; I gotta grab the lows on that, so the directional setups on their own never cut it, compared with the AB.
But those Oktavas aren’t noisy at all, but it’s a subjective thing for me - they just seem to feel grittier in MS or XY than in AB and that’s what I was meaning by noise.
They’re not quite like my Schoeps, but they make it into most sessions. The MS I’m just using for docs where it’s simple and sufficient.
Anyway, thanks for this cool thread!!
