Curt Olson has been making some excellent recordings using a parallel bound=
ary array. http://www.trackseventeen.com/mic_rigs.html It's a different aes=
thetic, to be sure. Rob Danielson has a blind comparison test between Curt'=
s rigs and the pseudo-SASS array: http://diystereoboundarymics.blogspot.com=
/2011/10/olson-wing-array-comparison-with-pbmb.html
> 1bRe: DIY boundary mic
> Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:01 pm (PDT) . Posted by:"vickipowys" vpowysDavid,
>
> In SASS the mics are more or less at right angles to one another,
> with a fixed spacing for the front ends of the mics (i.e. ear-spacing).
>
> If the mics were mounted parallel to one another (side by side), then
> this would be a completely different sort of rig, not SASS, and
> probably would not sound as spacious as SASS.
>
> Vicki
>
> On 23/07/2012, at 8:59 PM, Avocet wrote:
>
> >> The reason mics are staggered vertically in the DIY SASS rigs is to
> >> accommodate the microphone bodies that will cross each other's paths
> >> behind the boundaries.
> >
> > Why aren't longer mics just mounted side by side? The small angle
> > difference must be inaudible with omnis.
> >
> > David
> >
> > David Brinicombe
> > North Devon, UK
>
>
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