OK, here are some details about the recording.
Both recordings were made in the center of the 5th or 6th row of the theater. There was three of us taping, we all sat side by side, and I was in the center seat wearing the nevatons.
The DPA recording was made one seat to my right, still very much near the center of the row.
We all ran low-pro because the theater frowns upon mics in people's sight-lines down front and I usually do just as good wearing the mics there.
When these recording were made, I had no intentions of doing a mic comp or I would have tried to be more exact.
It was months later, I realized when comparing the two recordings, that the rigs were almost identical and that it would make a reasonable good comparison.
Fortunately, Tom and I almost always swap our CF cards when we record together with our 722s, so I had a copy of each master on hand.
Now here is the biggest difference in how we ran our mics, Tom wore the DPAs on his shirt collar, probably about a 4" to 5" spread.
I wore the Nevatons on the front of my shoulders, at I think about a 12" spread, maybe as much as 14" being I was flanked on both sides by a taper.
I wear the mics slightly down on the front of my shoulders so that my body acts as a baffle giving me less audience noise from behind. I am
taller than Tom, but being I wear my mics lower, I have to say that both pairs were at about the same height.
So the biggest difference between the two was the spread of the mics, which can be clearly heard. Here is something interesting to try though,
take a single channel from each sample make a mono recording and compare. I still find that the Nevaton samples are still more pleasant to listen to
and sound more open and life-like.
A note about the room, there is a caberat seating area directly in front of the stage, about 18' deep, then the rows start, so I would guess we were about 30' from stage lip.
The PA is hung high at the stage corners and aimed somewat downward, almost directly at were we were seated (that is why I can get away with wearing my mics so low)
I love my DPA 4060's, but in this theater, especially with acoustic music, I think I consistently do better with the nevatons.
Also, I think that the 4060s sound much better with the DPA MMA6000 pre than they do with the phantom adapters into the 7xx recorders and I think
the nevatons pair very well with the 7xx recorders. All a matter of opinion though...
Thanks for all of the excellent feedback! I'll try to do this comp again wearing both sets of mics on one hat as suggested, when I can
jamie