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Re: mkh30/40 or mkh30/50?

Subject: Re: mkh30/40 or mkh30/50?
From: "evs" onomatopoetik
Date: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:09 am ((PDT))
hi,
the perfect would be for me to get two mkh800.. but this is a little
bit too expensive.
but this brings up the idea that i maybe should buy one mkh800 and
one mkh30.. i would have ms and could change the characteristics..
this would be maybe an option, but the mkh800 seems to be bigger, so
i guess i could not use my sennheiser windshield and would have to
get a stereo rycote windshield.. right?
so this would mean a lot more costs..

emil

Am 22.03.2007 um 01:14 schrieb Walter Knapp:

> Posted by: "evs"
> >
> > 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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