Topic: Omnis for stacks micing?

[Gutbucket]

Depth and spaciousness are more subtle qualities than clarity and reverberant-balance issues, and not as obvious to, or valued by all listeners IME.  But I agree with that assessment and note that those qualities are a few of the of the things which I value most highly in good recordings and what set the excellent ones apart from otherwise technically good ones.

[laptaper]

I'm hoping the omnis will give me exactly that spaciousness and depth.  BTW, what are mk41's and mk22's, respectively?  Hypers, cards, omnis?  Something else?  I have many Schoeps recordings that I love (though I go for something less "dark" with my own gear), but know pretty much zilch about them.

[Gutbucket]

mk41 = supercardioid
mk22 = "open" cardioid (sort of midway bewteen cardioid and sub-cardioid)

[laptaper]

Good news: My Festy recordings turned out even better than last year.  I ran both omnis and cards.  Both setups sounded excellent, no discernible brittleness this time - perhaps better sound than last year?  The omnis, especially, have a really nice depth to them.  The bass is a bit overpowering for computer speakers or a boom box, but over stereo speakers they sound VERY nice and full.

Bad news: For the first 24 hours I unknowingly had my deck set up to record from the internal mics, not the AKG's in front of the stacks.  Grrrrrrrrr!  I was too focused on relaxing this year and got sloppy.  Back to Anal Bill next year.

BUT what I did get sounds excellent, including the first ever electric performance by the Infamous Stringdusters.  You can check out the recordings for yourself here:

http://bt.etree.org/?searchsss=btet&cat=0