Hi Patrick--
You should be able find the cable modification and shock-mounts
approaches for the NT-4 in the gallery:
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/ Tom Robinson's NT-4
shock is very clean--
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The primary strength of the NT-4 is its _relative compactness_--
although for recording ambience, adding a tripod to the shock mount
makes for a fairly cumbersome set-up. Students who use the NT-4's for
a couple of semesters ask for separate stereo mics to manipulate. And
since all (non electret mic) stereo arrays involve considerable bulk
and set-up, a pair of low-noise, high-output omnis might prove to be
much more flexible and effective in the long term. One can use them
in a SASS fixture, a boundary/Jecklin rig, as spaced A/B and around
dense objects like trees for binaural and more. Cardioids or X-Y (in
the NT-4's manner at least) would not be my first choice for
capturing a stereo image of sounds more than about 25' away. The NT-4
is excellent, though, for stereo recording of spatially confined
events-- even a couple of inches across. I think the horse has
stopped breathing. Rob D.
At 2:40 PM +0300 6/6/06, . m u r m e r . wrote:
> > Go with the Rode, and make sure to get Rob Danielson's recipe for
>> removing the attenuator in the cable. And get/make a good shock mount,
>> because it's pretty sensitive to handling noise.
>
>i'm probably about to go for one of these as well (i was considering buying
>derek's at, but now he's talked me out of it ; ) . what's your recipe,
>rob?
>
>patrick
>
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Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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