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DIY stereo microphone
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:18 am
by larrydag
Found this on makezine. Great DIY site with a lot of music related projects.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/0 ... 6B48984890
Re: DIY stereo microphone
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:41 pm
by spm_gl
I'm afraid the designer doesn't have the slightest clue on stereophonic recording. The way the capsules are pointed, you have an a/b with swapped channels.
Re: DIY stereo microphone
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:06 pm
by unfa
spm_gl wrote:The way the capsules are pointed, you have an a/b with swapped channels.
Could you say something more on that matter?
Re: DIY stereo microphone
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:49 pm
by nate
"Rather than spend big bucks on a stereo mic setup that won’t offer me the low quality sound that I am accustomed to, I have decided to build my own"
Seems like she set the bar kinda low.
Re: DIY stereo microphone
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:02 pm
by emarsk
Worst stereo recording arrangement I've ever seen.
Please, don't copy it and learn how to do it properly instead.
You don't need anything special except a pair of identical (matched, ideally) mics (well, except for M/S).
The net is full of good (and bad, apparently) tutorials. Look for articles that contain at least these acronyms: XY, AB, ORTF, M/S.
Wikipedia is a nice start, as always:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereophonic_sound.
P.S.
we need a facepalm emoticon: m(