[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Carey Carlan wrote:

With the capsules at extreme angles and 18" apart I get a surprising

distance makes sense, but I always keep omni's parallel so as to get the
same image of the rearmost center in both, otherwise the room sound to me
tends to split into a Y.

amount of stereo field. For that matter, as close as I was to such a
big group, that's probably as much spread as I could want.

Omni's vs. subcardioid vs. cardioid is very much about how much audience
and/or room noise is acceptable but also about depth clarity, some of the
time omni pairs work better for large ensembles than for small ensembles.

Kind regards

Peter Larsen