16 Oct
2005
16 Oct
'05
11:11 a.m.
On Sunday 16 October 2005 15:27, Esben Stien wrote:
Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas(a)gmx.net> writes:
The other reason is that omnis have very poor isolation (obviously), and thus
unless you have a very good room tend to pick up far too much of the room.
There are however people doing good work using these, I know several people
using the DPA stuff to great effect (mainly on classical recordings), and
Earthworks have taken the measurement omni and produced versions for
recording and SR usage.
why (are) measurement mics [..] (not) used for
recording vocals and
instruments more?
The way I understand it, is because most audio people are not
engineers and they use their ears to listen. The colorization of
certain mics may distort the sound in a pleasant way and they judge it
by that. I would use a measurement mic to record anything (if I
could afford
it) and then rather process the signal afterwards. This would be the
epitome of high fidelity audio engineering, or so is my understanding.
Just as long as you can live with the bleed and your room sounds nice.
The other major application of omnis by the way is in the very small capsules
required for head worn radio mics (either on a boom, or worn in the
hairline), they sound much more natural in this application. Again DPA have a
line of capsules that has been developed for this use.
Regards, Dan.