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Subject: Soundfield mic ST450
From: "Bird Recordist" badger540
Date: Tue May 3, 2011 1:35 pm ((PDT))
According to the manual (page 24), self noise is 13db - A weighted IEC 179 =
in cardioid pattern.

Andy UK

On 2 May 2011, at 22:50, Dan Dugan wrote:

> You know what, I can't find the specs anywhere but I listened to this mic=
 a long time ago and when the ST450 came out I thought it was considerably =
quieter than the ST350,

The lack of specs is decidedly weird. My ears made me ask the question.

> The B format signal is a huge asset. This mic will never be as quiet as a=
 Schoeps or Sennheiser capsules, but I=82m not looking for that. In terms o=
f a flexible and very good surround mic it=82s unique and much better to wo=
rk with than MSM.

More compact is always a help in the field. My Jecklin disk array weighs a =
ton.

> The quality, space and flexibility of the B format signal is awesome and =
beats anything I have ever heard. I think it=82s all to do with the absence=
 of any phase errors which any spaced capsule system suffers from.

But that's a trade-off. In exchange for the remixing flexibility, coinciden=
t techniques lack the timing information that contributes to realistic spat=
iality, especially for headphone listeners. What you call "errors" I call "=
dimensionality."

-Dan






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