[Nate Najar]

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.

[geoff]

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.



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

geoff

[Nate Najar]

I've never used a 414 xls. B-uls owner here. But basically it sounds like a superb Omni yet has rear rejection. It isn't so much that it is a wide pickup, it's that it has a very natural pickup.

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

On 08-01-2017 16:44, Nate Najar wrote:

I've never used a 414 xls. B-uls owner here. But basically it sounds like a superb
Omni yet has rear rejection. It isn't so much that it is a wide pickup, it's that
it has a very natural pickup.

About 6 dB audience noise rejection. A full cardioid, like C42, gets 10 dB.

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[JackA]

On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 3:18:14 AM UTC-5, 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.

Excuse me, I would like to hear some examples of your guitar playing!

Jack

[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
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Nate Najar]

Scott,

It is perfect for close miking the guitar in the studio because you can get it close in and still get a fairly accurate picture of the whole instrument, as you would with an Omni, but you still get some rejection and you don't pay for it with off axis response. I have to pull the mk41 back about 36" or more to get a correct sound and it still isn't as natural as this.