Vicki Powys wrote:
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> Walt and All,
>
> I tried closing the back 4 rows of the ME64 cardioid mic (just by gripping
> the mic in my hand), to see if it would respond more like an omni mic. I
> used a transistor radio as the sound source, and listened through
> headphones. For a front on comparison of blocked and unblocked, there
> seemed to be a higher frequency boost when blocked. For a side-on
> comparison, the blocked off version had somewhat more sensitivity than the
> unblocked version, but nothing like as clear as front on. So there must be
> something else happening in the ME 62. I wonder what?
Without taking them apart it would be hard to tell. Mics are not near as
simple as they appear.
You'd have to do the sort of testing that generates polar graphs to
really be sure what the difference was. Very hard to tell by ear.
Walt
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