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Affordable hypercards?

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thatjackelliott:
I'm thinking of trying hypercardioids to aim at an audience for generic music festival recordings. Anyone got a recco for a sub-$150 audience-grade microphone? The captured sound will be for ambience only, so fancy-schmancy Shoeps, etc., are not required.

IMPigpen:
You could get a pair of Naiant X-R remote capsules in HyperCard for $70/pair and then whatever you need for cables for $30-70 (XLR-3 for phantom, 1/8" stereo for PIP) depending on what you are going to plug them into to power them.

Gutbucket:
Jon (Naiant) is a TS member/vendor and makes excellent value gear, and his mics are what came to mind when I first saw your cost-constrained inquiry.  I've only personally used his X-8S bi-directional mics (as Side mics for Mid/Side), which I like.  An outstanding value and I was able to figure out low-voltage powering options for them with his help for applications where I do not have phantom power not available.

In general, I find good-sounding low cost-super/hypercards rather elusive.  It's seems relatively easy to make a decent sounding low cost omni, harder with a cardioid and harder still with a super/hyper.  They often  have resonant issues to my ear.  But for an audience mic mixed in with the main program those issues are likely to be less obvious than if you were using them as a straight main stereo pair.

jefflester:
https://www.iskproaudio.com/products/little-gem

With omni, card, hypercard caps so you can try them all.

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=176300

jcable77:
I haven't had a chance to try the hypers yet but I can definitely say the Naiant x-r cards and Omni's sound amazing for the price point and size.

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