Re: Making a 'cheap' figure of 8 microphone?

["Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg]

How?

Two omnis near one-another and connected out of phase will only cancel
one-another, at least at all frequencies which they have in common...??

Klas.



At 17:44 2006-09-25, you wrote:
> >>Phil
> >>a figure of 8? It's two omni's back-to-back wired together out of phase=
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> >Klas wrote:
> >You must mean "two cardioids".
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>Two omnis, separated by a small distance, and subtracted, _do_ give a figu=
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>of eight pattern.  The only trouble is that the frequency response is
>differentiated.  So it rolls off towards low frequencies at 6 dB/octave.  =
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>order to get the response to be flat again, say over the 3 decades of the
>audio spectrum, would require 60 dB of bass boost.
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>Eric Benjamin
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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