Hi Steve--
I added the answers provided thus far and the research you are doing
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At 8:30 AM -0500 8/31/10, Steve Duncan wrote:
> After posting my message I continued to hunt around a bit, and
>there was a thread on www.socialsounddesign.com where they mentioned
>the Ambient ATE 208 Emesser mic, which seems like about the same
>size and shape as the Schoeps CCM8, at about $700 @ B&H. It's sold
>as a clip-on accessory to a shotgun to create an M/S setup.
>
>The CK94 is at Full Compass for $530 + $290 for the body.
>
>There are also some integrated M/S shotgun mics, such as the
>Sennheiser MKH418 and the AT8029, at ~$1800 and $700 respectively.
>The AT8029 seems likely to be very noisy although the 418 seems less
>so. Still pretty expensive.
>
>The CAD M179 + Rode NT1-a would be ~$400. This seems to be the
>cheapest low-noise possibility, but it doesn't seem like it would be
>very portable.
>
>On Aug 30, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Eric Benjamin wrote:
>
>>> Steve Duncan wrote
>>> the figure-8 mic, which seems to be the hard part
>>
>> You got that right!
>>
>> There are a few relatively inexpensive large diaphragm microphones
>>that have a
>> Fig8 pattern. The one that occurs to me off hand is the CAD M179. It's
>> typically available for about $200. But being a large diaphragm
>>microphone it
>> has relatively poor polar patterns. On the other hand, the Fig8 pattern=
is
>> always the best pattern on a multi-pattern microphone.
>>
>> Personally, I'd prefer to use a small diaphragm microphone for the
>>Fig8. That
>> list is short:
>>
>> Schoeps Mk8
>> Sennheiser MKH30
>> Neumann KM120
>> AKG CK94
>>
>> The cheapest of these is the CK94 which ran about $820 the last I check=
ed.
>>
>> Can anyone think of a good, inexpensive, Fig8 condensor microphone?
>>
>> I guess it's up to you to do it yourself!
>>
>> Eric
>>
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