"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

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Well that was all very interesting Plowie, but I'm not sure what the
point of it was - my questions were specifically in respect of a
'multi-pattern tube mic' (as above)...??

Sigh. That's what I was trying to explain. The various patterns are a
combination of omni and figure of eight capsules outputs added in
different amounts. Which can be done by 'a' switch on the capsule or
elsewhere.


If you had bothered to follow my links you would have seen that I had
already discovered that...??


With a valve mic you need a power supply with multi-core cable
so it makes sense to have the DP switch on that - handy if the mic is
slung out of reach.


Hadn't thought of that, though....


Early valve mics like the AKG C12 had the same sort of
arrangement.

A solid state mic would be phantom powered off the mixer etc - only a
normal (twin and screen) mic cable - so the DP switch is normally on
the
mic itself.

But on second thoughts I should have saved my typing fingers.


Cheer up - I enjoyed following the model numbers of the mics you
mentioned and found a couple of very interesting sites! Here's one you
might like, if you don't already know it:

http://www.btinternet.com/~roger.bec...csmenu.htm#top