[Nick Brown]

Roy W. Rising wrote:
Nick Brown wrote:
[snip]

Lastly, a ribbon mic with a figure-8 pattern could be used as the side
mic in an MS pair, along with your Schoeps. It doesn't produce a
dramatic stereo effect, but it's interesting, it gives you a little of
the character of each of the two mics.

Cheers,
Nick

Ribbon (velocity) mics are 90 degrees out of phase with condensers and
dynamics (pressure). The combination Nick describes indeed would yield and
*interesting* sound.


Interesting point. So when the two are combined the result would be...
comb filtering?

I'm not clear what you mean by "condensers and dynamics (pressure)" -
taken literally it would seem to imply that all condenser mics are
pressure operated, even the hypercardioid Schoeps under discussion here,
even the single-diaphram figure-8 condensers (Schoeps MK8, Sennheiser
MKH30). That can't be right, can it?

If combining air pressure and velocity information is inherently flawed,
wouldn't that flaw be manifest in every cardioid mic ever? I thought
that was how the cardioid pattern was formed.

What am I missing here?

Cheers,
Nick