Hey there Jer -
First of all, this was never intended to be a serious technical question.
All I was asking was for someone to confirm whether the mics on a DR-40 were actual cards or not (since the manual never actually uses that term), and if a wide pan would work against me when taping; but some sneaky pete decided to report me to daspy because they thought it wasn’t right that I asked a question about the deck I was trying to buy, which just needed a simple answer, so I could put a few dollars in Dave’s pocket.
*Now* it’s apparently a technical question. Sheesh. The power of the internet, empowering anonymous humans everywhere. Good for that. And TS used to have such a community feel....
Anyway... I get what you’re saying, but the way the mics are described in the manual kind of doesn't make a lot of sense, the way it reads, anyway.
As the mics are set up on the DR-40, it's a basic X-Y configuration, nothing unusual there; but to move them 90 degrees outwards just seems to *invite* phasing.
Yes, I understand that at 110 degrees outward, it’s basically a traditional ORTF configuration, but that can depend on so many things, and typically, isn’t ORTF more of an omni configuration? At 120 degrees it sure would be, and that isn’t far off from the 110 degree spread.
Anyway, the question isn’t even really about mics, or about one config vs another, or anything like that. I just wanted to buy the deck Dave is selling, and before I committed to the purchase, I was hoping another DR-40 user might be able to shed a wee bit of light of what I was seeing in the manual for the unit.
At this point, I reckon I’ll just buy it regardless, and waste a little time experimenting. If it doesn’t work for me, I can just give it away to someone, since it seems that some folks want to change the old friendly feel of our old TS community by reporting things they don’t like. Any bets as to how long it takes before this one gets reported?
And some people wonder why some of us old school tapers don’t post her more often....