ability to change stereo widthHey Rick, Ive used everything from Card to omni and everything in between as the mid mic..If you make the Mid microphone an omni pattern, then when you decode it the spacing is fixed at a 180º spread - tthe patterns aim due left and right no matter the volume. But , as you adjust Mid vs. Side volume the pattern shifts from cardioid when the microphones are equal, to wide cardioid when there is more Mid, to hypercardioid when there is more Side.
I like using Cardiod the best, generally. fixed the PM thing, forgot about it.
of course with Cardiod as the mid, you essentially get an XY pairyes...led is frontyeah, the front of the lobe will face left. this will make the M/S decoders work like they were planned. if you mess it up, its not hard to fix, but the plugins are all designed for the left side to be positive and the right side to be negative.
+t and good luck!
it looks to me like on my akg c422, the front lobe of the fig 8 faces right. i am assuming that the side with the leds is the front...
Thanks for the interesting document. Unblock me in PM so's I can reply to your sends.
Notice that that document (is in in POLISH?) has card for the front mic. Have heard of some using omni. Which sounds better?
Rick
so what is the advantage of m/s over x-y..?
Also, better mono compatibility (not that anyone here is worried about mono in this day and age)...
I was exploring this as a better (or just an) alternative to blumlien - which works well close up, but not so well from further back. My curiousity was aroused by RatDogs soundguy - who runs M/S from FOH (which is pretty far back). But I didn't want to setup the 744 for M/S, as it's really difficult to monitor soundstage in a loud room, on the fly - hence my curiosity about methods for doing it in post...
My usual setup back in the room is X/Y Hyper. The ability to get "as good" a source recording, and adjust the width of the soundstage in post - could potentially make for a better result by being able to narrow the soundstage for boomy rooms, and widen it for "dry" rooms. Also, to potentially compensate for being further back from the source than optimum.
Something I want to experiment with in the future...
Rick