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Scott Dorsey wrote:
Wonder when that statement was made? I started work in TV sound (UK) in
1962, and the standard boom mic then was a cardiod. And had been for
several years.
That is because on a boom there is always too much room sound because
you can never move it close enough. That's not the fault of the mike,
that is the fault of those cameras.
I take it you've never operated a boom? ;-)
Here in the US the standard boom mike was probably an EV DL42 which was
supposedly more directional than a cardioid. It was... pretty awful. I
never understood how guys like Roy could get anything decent out of them
but they did. --scott
Yes - the standard here in the early days was an STC 4033. A matrix of
omni and ribbon to produce the cardiod.
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