Sugarite wrote:

There are times to say "people's stereos suck" and make comprimises, but IMO
distant micing with spaced mics for acoustic instruments never does more
harm than good if done right.

I need to do more work with spaced omni's. The deeper I
investigate the operation of coincident methods the more I
see that they are fraught with difficulties due to angular
variations in frequency response (magnitude and phase.)
They aren't just theoretical either, I can hear them. I've
been at a loss for some time to understand why the cymbals
from a drumset would be so far removed from the kick thump
in an MS recording when they aren't physically removed much
at all but the reasons for that are becoming clearer.


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein