Posted by: "evs"
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> hi everyone again,
> now that its clear to me that i got to have the mkh mics i=B4m
> wondering if anyone here compared the mkh30/40 ms combination with
> the mkh30/50?
> or an equal situation with two mkh80?
I have a pair of MKH80s that I use M/S, I don't have a MKH50, but do
have a M/S MKH-30/40 setup. I also have a MKH-30/60 setup.
The MKH80's are much more sensitive and lower noise than the MKH-30/40,
and I would expect the MKH-50 would fit with the MKH-30/40 on this. The
MKH-60 is like the 80's, but combined with the 30 you are a little limited.
Choose your mid by the width of field you are trying to record. The 40
will record wider than the 50, which will record wider than the 60.
Check the polar patterns for the mics. The mid is really the limiting
factor in the width of field you can reproduce accurately. Of course the
MKH-80s being multipattern you can change this with just a switch.
There are samples here (quite old ones now, from when I first started M/S):
http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/docs/samples.html
Photos of my M/S setups are here:
http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/docs/ms_setups.html
My widest mic is the Mod SASS/MKH-20, it does wider than any of my M/S.
As far as finding them in the used market or ebay, the MKH-40 are much
more common than the MKH-50. MKH-30's are not all that common either.
Walt
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