"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (Rabid Nutcase)


Omnis are ideal as hand held vocal mics.

** Only true for film and TV interview work.

For all other recoding and broadcast use, cardioids are
much preferred for a more " intimate" sound quality.

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

The proximity effect also adds to that extra gain very significantly
- without any penalty to the chance of feedback.


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 !!!!!!

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

See the schematic of any famous " variable pattern " condenser
mic for the details.

Cos this LYING, know nothing, BULL****TING

PIG IGNORANT pommy ****

HAS NO ****ING IDEA !!




..... Phil



In this particular case Phil, I think you are speaking from your major
orifice and should take council from those who do recording as a living and
have built up years of experience in using the right tool for the job.

There are many white papers and articles on the Internet that show, as Dave
Plowman said, how a dual diaphragm capsule can be matrixed to give a wide
range of response patterns by changing the capsule polarisation voltage that
effectively adds or subtracts each capsule pattern. It might be fruitful to
look them up - I think there are some on the Neumann and AKG web sites.

Mike