Given a lot of materials knowledge, accidents, vast expenditure more than t=
he cost of actually buying a figure 8 - you could experiment and make one r=
unning from plug in power. Problem with this idea is as soon as you tell pe=
ople you've made it, they will want one and given the complexities and dyna=
mics of "i dont want to pay that much" it will probably remain a curiosity,=
destined to fail at some point in the future.
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ote:
>
> <<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.>>
>
> A problem with many of the Chinese-made, lower cost mics is that the
> frequency response & pattern in figure 8 is not symmetrical. The back =
> side often sounds quite different from the front, which would make MS =
> unusable.
>
> <<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>>
>
> MBHO also has a figure 8 capsule for its modular series of mics. Same =
> general price range as above. There is also the Sennheiser MKH80,
> replaced now with the 800. Stratospheric though, about $3,000.
>
> Scott Fraser
>
>
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