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i had easter dinner with my parents last night and commented to my
father on how I am experimenting with this new microphone to record my
classical guitar in live performance. I'm trying out the dpa imk4061
with pretty good results. I'm trying to find a way to mount it now
that I've found a good position for it, and I wanted Dad's advice to
rig something up. So my last concert was local and my parents were
there- i mentioned "did you see that little black dot attached to the
top of the guitar?" which Dad replied no. so i explained that it was
this little lavalier mic etc.... When I showed him how small it is
his first comment, and he was serious, was "it must not be very good-
i hope it wasn't too expensive."

Then later when I was describing where i want to mount the microphone
he said to drill another hole in the body (there's an endpin for the
passive undersaddle transducer) for the xlr and just mount the mic
inside. he would argue with every excuse I came up with as to why
that ain't happening so finally I said simply "it's not an option,
next suggestion..." Then when he asked if the mic needed to be
oriented a certain direction i told him no- this is an omni
directional mic and this one in particular is omni at all
frequencies. he says "that doesn't make sense- i know what
omnidirectional means but the sound would have to change depending on
where the sound hits it" to which point i said "let's have dessert".

Of course this is the same guy who thinks i'm ridiculous for having
spent as many thousands of dollars on my classical guitar as i did
because sam ash has perfectly fine guitars for $400.

Parents are funny.

Nate
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I had a somewhat simular experience some years ago
We had just gotten some b&k 4006s which until then
the usual was to start with with a AKG 422 for the main stereo
pick up .

the concert was a chamber orchestra in a fairly live large church
with vocal pieces [ a stereo typical middle aged heavy set male tenor ]

when setting up the 4006 s , he remarked on how small they were making
modern microphones these days , well the omni's were too ambient for
where they needed to be for a good balence , so upon pulling out the larger
422 , the Singer remarked " Now that's a microphone ! "

Sometimes bigger is better ? or don't always get what you paid for ?

regards





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i had easter dinner with my parents last night and commented to my
father on how I am experimenting with this new microphone to record my
classical guitar in live performance. I'm trying out the dpa imk4061
with pretty good results. I'm trying to find a way to mount it now
that I've found a good position for it, and I wanted Dad's advice to
rig something up. So my last concert was local and my parents were
there- i mentioned "did you see that little black dot attached to the
top of the guitar?" which Dad replied no. so i explained that it was
this little lavalier mic etc.... When I showed him how small it is
his first comment, and he was serious, was "it must not be very good-
i hope it wasn't too expensive."

Then later when I was describing where i want to mount the microphone
he said to drill another hole in the body (there's an endpin for the
passive undersaddle transducer) for the xlr and just mount the mic
inside. he would argue with every excuse I came up with as to why
that ain't happening so finally I said simply "it's not an option,
next suggestion..." Then when he asked if the mic needed to be
oriented a certain direction i told him no- this is an omni
directional mic and this one in particular is omni at all
frequencies. he says "that doesn't make sense- i know what
omnidirectional means but the sound would have to change depending on
where the sound hits it" to which point i said "let's have dessert".

Of course this is the same guy who thinks i'm ridiculous for having
spent as many thousands of dollars on my classical guitar as i did
because sam ash has perfectly fine guitars for $400.

Parents are funny.

Nate



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On Mar 24, 5:24*am, Nate Najar wrote:

Then when he asked if the mic needed to be
oriented a certain direction i told him no- this is an omni
directional mic and this one in particular is omni at all
frequencies. *he says "that doesn't make sense- i know what
omnidirectional means but the sound would have to change depending on
where the sound hits it" to which point i said "let's have dessert".


Well, Dad is partially correct. All mics beam at high frequencies.
Every last one. Omnis too. The better omnis hold a better polar
pattern over the entire frequency range. Even measurement mics have
two different standards depending on whether the the sounds to be
measured are random or free field. See IEC 61672 (from 60651), IEC
61094 and ANSI S1.4 and S1.12.

bobs

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