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Re: EQ recordings with parabola

Subject: Re: EQ recordings with parabola
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Sun Jun 3, 2007 3:54 am ((PDT))
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When we made these measurements, nothing was really surprising,
compared to theory. However, "everyone"  has always claimed that "you
must have an omni in a parabola". That is a myth.
Looking at freq. behavior, a cardioid performs better. You have to
pay with worse handling and wind noise, though.

Klas.


At 23:11 2007-06-02, you wrote:
>Are there published specs on the attenuation curve by frequency for
>any of the commercially available parabolas? If you are trying to be
>accurate, it seems to me you could record white noise, split out the
>response by frequency and then equalize the inverse.



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