erik sikkema just emailed me a clip of a jazz trio recording he did
using his proprietary ULSI stereo mic technique. he developed the
setup for some organ recordings he did for weckman, and has gotten some
pretty rave reviews for the organ recordings. the mic setup appears to
be a wide (maybe 3' spacing) NOS/DIN arragnement of a pair of DPA
4006s. does anyone have any info on the technique or why this would be
significantly different from a normal spaced pair of omnis (yes, i know
that using the omnis slightly off-axis has a slight effect on
directivity and high freq response)? anyone tried this technique?
thanks.

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erik sikkema just emailed me a clip of a jazz trio recording he did
using his proprietary ULSI stereo mic technique. he developed the
setup for some organ recordings he did for weckman, and has gotten some
pretty rave reviews for the organ recordings. the mic setup appears to
be a wide (maybe 3' spacing) NOS/DIN arragnement of a pair of DPA
4006s. does anyone have any info on the technique or why this would be
significantly different from a normal spaced pair of omnis (yes, i know
that using the omnis slightly off-axis has a slight effect on
directivity and high freq response)? anyone tried this technique?
thanks.

I'd consider that narrowly-spaced omnis. I've used that sort of thing
and never liked the imaging much. It does, of course, have the wonderful
tonality that you get from omnis. The low end imaging is exaggerated,
the midrange imaging is mostly absent.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."