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Phil Allison wrote:
Omnis are ideal as hand held vocal mics.


** Only true for film and TV interview work.

********. The finest sounding hand held vocal mics are all omnis. Used for
vocalists - not 'interviews'.

When sound reinforcement is in place, the extra gain before
feedback of a cardioid ** VOCAL MIC ** is almost essential.

Which is pretty well what I said in the next line which you snipped, you
shiftless worm.

But only for deaf audiences - like you, clearly. You can get pretty
respectable levels with a properly used omni without...

The proximity effect also adds to that extra gain very significantly.

which can be most unpleasant.


Well of course the traditional large diaphragm condenser mics were all
switchable between omni, cardioid and fig eight due to having two
diaphragms one on each side of the capsule.

** True.

By matrixing these you get the various DPs.


** Totally FALSE !!!!!!

Easier to understand. Add a fig of eight to an omni and you get a cardiod.

No matrixing of two signals is involved, a far simpler and more
technically elegant method is used.

How it's achieved in practice is irrelevant.

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