[Scott Dorsey]

geoff wrote:
On 8/01/2017 9:18 PM, Nate Najar wrote:
Guys, I got a new schoeps this week.... an mk22 "open cardioid." It
has a response very similar to an Omni but with a respectable rear
rejection. It is stunning as a soloist/spot microphone. I've been
making test recordings the last few days in my new room with my
guitar and I am really impressed with how natural the pickup is. I
cannot wait to do some work with it.

See, I was never a huge fan of those. Yes, they have nearly the low end
extension of the omni while still having some directionality, but they
never seemed to be a thing I found myself needing. I either needed more
directionality or none at all.

Wider than the 'wide-cardioid' setting on a C414B-XLS (but presumably
less coloured) ?

Even set as an omni, the C414 is very directional at high frequencies.
In wide-cardioid mode, it is still very very narrow in the top octave,
which seems the dominant character of the thing to me. The mk22 is
more uniform by a long shot.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."