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Piotr Wozniacki August 12th, 2007 04:14 PM
Christopher, thanks for the article link. It helped me realize that - apart from the possiblity of switching the MS matrix off - my Edirol offers the very same capabilities that the AT835ST does, only for half the price...:)

Bob, do you mean that the focus (or narrow) mode simply switches the S capsule off, leaving you basically with a mono directional shotgun? If so, then I made an awful mistake indeed. I was trying to narrow, and not disable, the stereo ambience...

EDIT: Bob, actually I'd aprreciate your answer on the question above, because I'd like to avoid mistakes like this in future. The microphone's manual doesn't say it effectively works as mono when switched to narrow (FOCUS), but - using my ears - I can confirm your observation there is very little, if any, difference between the L and R channels.

Christopher Lefchik August 12th, 2007 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Grant (Post 727788)
No doubt in Normal the mic does a pretty good job, my comment was directed to what it does in Narrow. As I said (or hope what I said was understood as), what's wrong isn't the mic. It's the idea that sound is like like light. Move back from the subject and you need a longer focal length lens to get the shot framed the same. The same doesn't apply to sound. Certainly we can build very narrow angle pickup microphones but that only works over a decreasingly narrow part of the spectrum plus lots of things happen to the sound as it travels and reflects off walls. Phased array mics do a very good job of side rejection but once you get so far away from the sound source that you need that much side rejection any chance of getting a stereo image is gone.
Ah, understood. Very good point.

Christopher Lefchik August 12th, 2007 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Piotr Wozniacki (Post 727795)
Christopher, thanks for the article link. It helped me realize that - apart from the possiblity of switching the MS matrix off - my Edirol offers the very same capabilities that the AT835ST does.
You're welcome!


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