I like this!
Now we have David's "splashing" and Curt's "wavy", two words that
cannot be described.
I think we are getting somewhere!
Klas
>Excellent questions Scott. Thank you!
>
>"Wavy" is the best word I've found so far to describe a phenomenon
>I've noticed consistently for many years on recordings captured with
>ORTF, M-S and spaced-omni arrays. Not a partial blending toward
>mono, but rather a very subtle but audible "jitter" or
>"inter-channel instability" in these non-baffled arrays. Sorry,
>that's the best I can do at describing it. The common thread would
>seem to be non-baffled. Introduce baffles/barriers, especially
>adjacent to the mics (either perp. or flush), and it seems to almost
>always disappear.
>
>I've been able to greatly reduce the effect in ORTF-type pairs by
>moving the two mics closer and closer to each other until, at some
>point, depending on the mics, the "wavy" effect seems to become
>unnoticeable. Of course, the desired stereo width gets reduced too.
>
>Why this would occur in M-S recordings is absolutely beyond me, but
>it's almost always there.
>
>Curt Olson
>
>Scott Fraser wrote:
>
> >> The SASS-type rigs deliver a super clean image without any of
> the "wavy" microphone interactions that are common to ORTF, M-S and
> Spaced-Omni arrays.
> >
> > Could you describe what you mean by "wavy"? Given how vastly
> different ORTF, MS & Spaced Omni are from each I can't imagine what
> characteristic they would all have in common. Are you referring to
> the partial blending toward mono of any non-baffled array?
> >
> > Scott Fraser
>
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