> ... "you get a surround recording that you can afterwards decode to
> quad
> or 5.1 easily !"
>
> What is really good IMO is you can simulate any number of mics with
> any
> polar pattern between Omni though to Fig8.
What is not useful is that every configuration has a very wide angle
of acceptance, vertical as well as horizontal, so every passing plane,
wind in trees, traffic or geoacoustic sources and ground reflections
are also well recorded. I find for wildlife that limited angle
directionality is still noisy but it does give a much greater fetch
for the sources I want to record. Wind and planes I can add on later
if I really wanted them. :-)
The only saving grace of a configurable cardioid/fig-8 array is that
you can reduce one source from one particular solid angle, but bear in
mind that the total active solid angle of a fig-8 is large and as soon
as you add in an omni component it gets larger.
> With MS, the width can easily be varied in post production, but the
> effective polar patterns will be dictated by the relative amounts of
> M&S &
> the polar patter of the "M" mic.
Nope. The total solid angle width cannot be varied, only the stereo
object angle can be varied by a small amount from wide to very wide.
David
David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
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