Topic: DPA 4061 + Zoom F3

[Gutbucket]

Yes, here's the big one:

The more complete the acoustic picture your brain is provided with by the recording, the easier it is to focus on whatever may be your mental target of interest.  The talkers are still there, but are perceptually located elsewhere than the music, allowing you to "hear around them" and keep concentration on the music via the "cocktail party effect".

Mono is most difficult in that sense because all sound sources are mixed together and emanate from a single source location on playback.  Stereo provides for very useful mental separation of sources, as well as direct and reverberant sound, multichannel surround even more so to a much greater degree.

[SMsound]

^^ This.

But still keep in mind that great recordings can be made with a potato:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFEZOjtrwls

they'll just be worse than they could have been in a perfect world where you had an extra 4061 to tape in stereo. More specifically, mono tracks just more boring to your brain than stereo ones.

[Pieteker]

Run your single DPA mic in mono on the Zoom F3.

Then run it through this:

https://schoeps.de/en/products/accessories/plugins/mono-upmix-plugin.html

At least until you get a 2nd one.

Mono is pretty suboptimal. That said, a great performance in mono beats a less great performance in stereo every time. Pretty much everything we do to make better recordings is less effective than just playing music with more skill. So, absolutely you can still get recordings that you will appreciate (and when that happens, you'll be annoyed you didn't have another mic to max out your taping quality...)

Is this plugin any good? https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/bx_stereomaker.html?srsltid=AfmBOorEfHRoITeNRw8egH30AycLcRfW7DIqT6gO_iqeRD0CnqNGLgj4

[Pieteker]

Looking forward to using the mic! I usually tape with mics in a hat—how should I mount the single 4061?

[gambra]

[Pieteker]

I got this Y-cable made from two original DPA extension cables — works perfectly!

[Gutbucket]

^ The "old-school" way, with barrel adapters 

[rocksuitcase]

I got this Y-cable made from two original DPA extension cables — works perfectly!

looks great!