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Re: Reality Check on Audio-Technica 4073a Shotgun Mic

Subject: Re: Reality Check on Audio-Technica 4073a Shotgun Mic
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:32 pm ((PDT))
>Outdoor or indoor dialog at 4 to 5 feet is muddy
>and tubular.

That's about double the distance at which I would expect good results 
with any short shotgun or hypercardioid. The best film dialog is 
recorded with a hypercardioid on a boom overhead just out of the shot.

"A canna' change the laws of physics, Captain!"
Scotty, The Naked Time, stardate 1704.3, Episode 7

-Dan Dugan



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