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Re: Cardioid Vs. Omni for use in Parabolic mic setup...

Subject: Re: Cardioid Vs. Omni for use in Parabolic mic setup...
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_rob
Date: Tue Jul 3, 2007 7:03 am ((PDT))
At 6:01 AM +0000 7/3/07, stoatwizard wrote:
>  > How about two cardioids in separate, big, parabolic dishes with an
>>  adjustable parallax for stereo? Rob D.
>
>This seems to have been tried in the early days without stellar results
>
>http://www.wildlife-sound.org/journal/archive/stereo1.html#longrange

Thanks Richard. Great resource page and historical record! David used 
36" dishes too.

One suitable application might be both dishes, close-spaced 
converging on a key point of interest like a nest. The curious 
attribute to me is the flip-flopped, stereo field from points beyond 
the nest, the background. I never really considered making stereo out 
of two very distant, fairly narrow fields of space. Would likely make 
the background too busy in some locations, but it might work nicely 
for lower key settings.  If there were reflective, vertical surfaces 
in each of the distant fields, those surfaces might also act like 
collectors. Rob D.

>
>Hacking through the vegetation with one dish is bad enough. Trying that
>with two borders on the masochistic ;)
>


-- 
Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
Department of Film
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee




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