Having just listened to Jim's "Brown Canyon Storm" recording
(http://www.wingsofnature.com/downloads/, I listened to it many times on a=
row, great stuff there) I realize there is a fundamental difference between=
recording with a dish and recording with a studio pair: intimacy. Those dis=
h
recordings have a feel that the birds are close and the storm is distant,
exactly the opposite feel that I get with a similar recording I made with a=
n
ORTF pair of Rode NT2000's, where the wind and rumble feel closer than any=
of the birds, especially the canyon wrens.
So maybe I'll start a switch over to that technology. Thing is, I like the=
low end of the specturm as much as the highs.
So my questions are,
How does the diameter of a dish relate to the low-end response?
When the low end falls off, is it completely gone, or just 3 dB down? Does=
it get phasey?
What difference in the low end is there between using cards (facing the
dish) and omni's?
And finally, does using a dish narrow the stereo image much over an MS setu=
p
(which is about 45 to each side, in my experience), and does the low end
remain largely omnidirectional while the mid's and hi's become increasingly=
directional?
Bruce Wilson KF7K
http://science.uvsc.edu/wilson
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