Mike Rooke wrote:
| still looking for a decent figure 8 that doesn't break the piggy
| > bank to go with it, suggestions welcome.
Emanuele Costantini
| It looks like a hammerhead shark but is pretty affordable and should
| sound very good.
| Oktava MK-012 preamp with MK-012 figure of eight adaptor.
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| http://www.oktava-shop.com/view_category.php?category=3D1
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| I'm a fan of MK-012 and I just ordered the figure of eight head. In few
| days I can tell you how it sounds.
May be a good choice, it is probably the cheapest Fig8 going & IMO the
basic Oktava MK-012 sounds way better than it's price suggests. But no way=
with this crazy design have anything vaguely resembling phase coherence
between the +&- sides much above 1kHz!
The 2 cardioids used to create a Fig8 response are so far apart there is no=
way you are going to get positional accuracy on any transients or anything=
in the mid to hi frequency region. It may give some pretty interesting &
pleasant to the ears results tho.
I guess it may be big enough to make a neat rig in standard windshields
problematic. That being so maybe a Rode NT2a could be a better option. Yes=
it is stupidly heavy ( I have remounted one in a much lighter package) but=
it sounds better than the Oktava, has lower noise & is dead cheap.
John L
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