> I expect most of us find M-S just a bit exotic, partly because there
seems to be a dearth of hard information on how to do it correctly.
Keith,
You will have to wait while I work on that section of my field
recording guide. :-)
I was one of the pioneers of stereo TV filming and was recording in
stereo long before the BBC went stereo. The technical debate went
towards M-S for the very good reason that you can throw away the "S"
and you are back to normal. :-)
One early stereo assignment was at Biggin Hill aerodrome, doing an
outdoors interview with light aircraft flying training "circuits and
bumps". They issued me with a Beyer gunnmic and fig-8 rig (would't
have been my first choice) and what I got was a skyful of light
aircraft crossing and crisscrossing the stereo image as they picked up
on the side lobes of the gunmic. A mono interview resulted which would
have been better on lapel mics.
The fig-8 element of M-S gives a near 360 degree pickup with natural
echoes, much of this out of phase and this seriously limits their use
in noisy locations.
David
David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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