I wonder if its as hackable as the H2?
My H2 sounds great since I replaced the internal mics with two 3.5mm sockets.
and built the brass wonder, or a quad (omni) capsule dipole mic:
http://urlme.net/audio/DSCF3344.jpeg
Front/Left & Right are differenced to from the figure 8, all capsules summed
for the omni, or mixed with the front/rear figure 8, or any combination for
adjustable patterns including blumlein.
Downsides is the processing chain, most of that Ive offloaded to a hand crafted
reaper js plugin with quad, dual ms, or blumlein output. Another issue is the
capsules need to be as identical as possible / response to within 0.5dB, 2 dB
at a pinch or with a preEQ fix before the rest of the matrixing.
Ive not had that much luck with the ambisonic plugins, they do work - but Ive
found it easier to setup a processing chain pre-eq, matrix lr to ms, eq shuffle
(right/difference) eq, ms matrix to lr. Using two of the side capsules for less
noise, the result is a coincident set of cardioids.
Using it as a dipole mic via a stereo recorder with two identical capsules also
works well.
I must test it next to the Rode NT4 to get some idea of its ability recorded
via the Sony D50.
BR
Mike.
--- In Aaron Ximm <> wrote:
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> Doing the Zoom H2 two better:
>
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sanyos-icr-ps605rm-xacti-stereo-recorder-features-six-mics-f/
>
> Well, possibly not really. :)
>
> AFAI can tell it's two X-Y configurations, for four-mic surround; and
> two omnis; and unclear if you can use them at the same time, or, in
> fact, if it will record four-channel surround (though I certainly
> assume so!)...
>
> aaron
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