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Re: Sony PCM-D1

Subject: Re: Sony PCM-D1
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:18:00 -0700
Flawn wrote,

>But consider how you'd have to hold the unit to make this miking work.  You'd
>be needing to turn it sideways, by rotating your wrist. This will increase
>arm strain for long interviews, and will hide all the fancy meters from your
>line of sight. Not the orientation that most users would intuitively use when
>holding something that looks all too much like a glorified Sony VCR remote
>control....

I made two visits to handle it at the AES. The mic head swivels 
forward and back, clicking into position: angled up, straight out, or 
angled down.

I suspect the "near XY" configuration was dictated by the shape they 
wanted--putting one capsule over the other would have made it much 
thicker.

-Dan Dugan


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