How are you conducting your test? The unfortunately too common test of speaking into the mic whilst listening via headphones is a gigantic mistake, because bones conduction creates phase cancellation. Since the phase response of the mic is pattern-dependant, the cancellation happens differently.gevermil said:So my DU67 in cardioid sounds a bit harsher than figure 8 or omni .
also some audible differences front and rear in figure 8 .
Any reasons spring to mind ?
abbey road d enfer said:How are you conducting your test? The unfortunately too common test of speaking into the mic whilst listening via headphones is a gigantic mistake, because bones conduction creates phase cancellation. Since the phase response of the mic is pattern-dependant, the cancellation happens differently.
I've often said (and written) that KH is a good microphone historian!AusTex64 said:Gee, that's exactly how Klaus Heyne tests mics!
Interesting! Problem is most fig-8 mics have a form factor that's incompatible with placement on a snare. The only exceptions I know are quite expensive (Schoeps, Neumann, Josephson) and having them on loan is quite difficult.zebra50 said:This is wonderfully useful. These days I'm using figure-8 condensers on snare drums.
Is it a native fig-8 capsule or a dual-diaphragm switchable-pattern type? If the latter, what made you choose the fig-8 setting over cardioid?zebra50 said:I'm using a Microtech Gefell UM70, either above, near the rim, but quite often further down, more to the side of the snare, to get a bit more body. Sometimes I combine that with an SM57 on top.
OK. Did you manage to have better rejection of the hi-hats by orieting the null towards them?zebra50 said:Dual diaphragm.
I picked figure 8 because I wanted to try the tonal changes from the proximity effect, which are more pronounced in figure 8.
I had used ribbons on snare too.
OK. Did you manage to have better rejection of the hi-hats by orieting the null towards them?
Isn't it fun? ;Dzebra50 said:I think we might have derailed this thread and gone off topic a little bit.
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