Success with ME66/K6 and LS-11 recorder

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

<<The bad news is I'm already thinking about a ME67 cartridge at some
point
as where I live is mostly all residential area, too many roads and
cars and
school buildings with air conditioning plants on the roof and two
airports
near by within four miles. While the ME66/K6 helps quite a bit, I can
see
where a mic with more side rejection of the unwanted/undesirable noise
would help...>>

The kind of noise you're describing, distant, highly diffuse, mostly
low/low-mid range, is not really directional & will exist in equal
measure in front as well as to the sides of any direction you point a
mic. I wouldn't count on any real improvement at rejecting that sort
of background ambience with a tighter directional pattern. It will
really need filtering & noise reduction software in post production.

Scott Fraser