Hi Rob,
I had spent the afternoon prior to making the Yote recording experimenting=
with the angle between the microphones. I found that with the ME66 pair,
(super cardioid), I needed to reduce the included angle between
microphones to 60 degrees. The shorter pencil type ME64 and the R0DE
NT5's (cardioid with a broad pattern) seem to work well at 90 degrees
included angle.
I'm not sure of the definition "super cardioid" being meaningful, its how
Sennheiser categorizes the ME66 amongst the ME64 (cardioid) and the ME67
(hyper cardioid), fundamentally the ME66 is a narrower pattern and looks
from the Sennheiser polar plots to be within 3dB from about 35 degrees
either side of center. After initial tests, I closed up the angle slightly=
of the ME66 pair but did not measure it, its an 'eyeball' guestimate...
At 03:51 PM 8/3/2010 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Mitch--
>Interesting to hear a chorus from Massachusetts. The pitch of the
>calls is lower and the energy rate is a little slower than the
>Wisconsin packs I'm accustom to. An alpha does seem to be trying to
>contact pack members, perhaps to determine their location. The
>individual who calls to the left towards the end seems to make a
>confirmation bark, but the pack doesn't respond. The yotes should
>become more vocal into the Fall, especially the pups. It doesn't
>sound to me like there are the typical 4-5 pups in that pack.
>
>AC is a huge contributor to the grungescape this time of year isn't
>it?. Using several parametric EQ "notches" to reduce specific drones
>of the AC equipment might make the recording feel less "thin" than
>using high pass filtering. There's a pretty nice Parametric EQ plug
>that comes with Reaper that has unlimited bands.
>I'm not sure how I would address stereo with two shotgun mics, but it
>seems like there is quite a bit of left-right "cross-talk" in the
>stereo image. Can you describe how you have the mics positioned?
>Have you tried placing a baffle or other separator between them? Rob
>D..
Best explained with pictures. And, no, no baffle or separator:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/F1FPcina/Microphone_tests.html
I had spent the afternoon prior to making the Yote recording experimenting=
with the angle between the microphones. I found that with the ME66 pair,
(super cardioid), I needed to reduce the included angle between
microphones to 60 degrees. The shorter pencil type ME64 and the R0DE
NT5's (cardioid with a broad pattern) seem to work well at 90 degrees
included angle.
I'm not sure of the definition "super cardioid" being meaningful, its how
Sennheiser categorizes the ME66 amongst the ME64 (cardioid) and the ME67
(hyper cardioid), fundamentally the ME66 is a narrower pattern and looks
from the Sennheiser polar plots to be down about 3dB from about 35 degrees=
either side of center. After initial tests, I closed up the angle slightly=
of the ME66 pair but did not measure it, its an 'eyeball' guestimate of 60=
degrees and seems to work quite well, actually better than I had expected..=
.
Interesting to note, at dusk, I had covered the microphones with a black
plastic garbage bag held with painter's masking tape to protect them from
the Cape Cod night time humidity and moisture and the Coyote recording is
made through the plastic bag...
--
Thanks,
Mitch & Shadow...
http://www.4shared.com/dir/UTASxktL/wildlife.html
Shadow's area: http://www.4shared.com/dir/ecfWjyZb/Shadow.html
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