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Re: Advice on DPA/B+K stereo pair please!

Subject: Re: Advice on DPA/B+K stereo pair please!
From: "Rich Peet <>" <>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 01:31:10 -0000
wow, you did a great job at taking a good look at your mics.
I am not an expert here but I do note the the trade off of having 
decent sensitivity with having a flat freq response.  If I am wanting 
a flat response and a real good match I will take the real small 
Crown elements about 1/4 inch across.  If I want a great sensitivity 
I will take the 1" RF condensor capsule.  I don't think there is a 
perfect mate here although we keep looking.  I appreciate your giving 
the input on the best you have found.  Maybe someone else here can 
comment on a configuration that clearly wins.

Either way I too am a fan of working and fighting with omnis.

Rich

--- In  Tom Thorley 
<> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just taken the plunge and made my most significant 
investement in nature
> recording yet. I have, after quite literally years of deliberation 
bought a
> matched pair of DPA 4006's. I appreciate that two omnis are not the 
easiest
> mics to get good recordings with, but with a little fieldcraft they 
are capable
> of the most startlingly transparent but present sound. 
> I am however in need of your advice following up on the matched 
pair issue
> raised with binaural mics recently. 
> I have seen DPA mics with ruler straight on-axis free field 
response but mine
> have a 1/2dB variation with quite a few wiggles between 20Hz and 
7kHz then a 1
> 1/3 dB rise starting at 7khz and peaking at 15khz, beyond 15khz 
there is a
> 1/2dB disparity between the mics. 
> My question is, what is more important having a pair of mics that 
are acurately
> matched or having a ruler straight dB-frequency response (I have 
been given the
> best matched pair of capsules they had) and are any of the stats 
quoted above
> an "issue" in a practical sense given that DPA mics often have 
ruler straight
> responses and subscribe to very high standards. 
> It has been a massive investement for me and although some of these 
things may
> seem fussy I still have an opportunity to exchange them, so your 
advice would
> be warmly welcomed. 
> 
> Yours,
> Tom 
> 
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