Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-24 Thread Steve Jacobson
@groups.io Subject: Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones I would not recommend a figure 8 pattern if you are sitting in the audience and want to record the people on stage. A firugre eight microphone picks up equally from the front and the back of the mic, so it would pick up the audience

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, It looks like any other mic. Such mics as the Blue Yeti up to U87 are multiple pattern mics and you just operate a switch. From my understanding a figure of 8 is not a studio microphone. Figure of 8 would be used in meetings and interviewing situations. Which I think is the environment

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, The question is vague and I am surprised that the author hasn’t offered any clarification. The author Steve dismissed cardioid then wrote: >> but I am interested in being able to better pick up a speaker from, say, the >> first row in the audience. Any thoughts on what degree this is

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-24 Thread Hamit Campos
ck up from the front. Frank -Original Message- From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:03 PM To: all-audio@groups.io Subject: Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones What's a figure 8 mic look like? I ke

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread frank cuta
th another directional element to pick up from the front. Frank -Original Message- From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:03 PM To: all-audio@groups.io Subject: Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones What's

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread frank cuta
connector or at about 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock Frank -Original Message- From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:03 PM To: all-audio@groups.io Subject: Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones What's a figure 8

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread frank cuta
connector or at about 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock Frank -Original Message- From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:03 PM To: all-audio@groups.io Subject: Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones What's a figure 8 mic

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread Hamit Campos
What's a figure 8 mic look like? I keep hearing they hear from the frunt and back. What's that mean? So hear's what I emagin. Something like an SM58 but as well as hearing you at the front end like the 58 it heard you even if you're talking at the XLR end of it. Sorry if this isn't too clear

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread tim cumings
Kelly i think you have he right approach. > On Sep 23, 2019, at 10:48 PM, Kelly Pierce wrote: > > I use a dynamic microphone because I figure it is easier to choose one > rather than have many different kinds. My gear is going to be slung > around my neck and shoulders and travel on a city bus

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread Kelly Pierce
I use a dynamic microphone because I figure it is easier to choose one rather than have many different kinds. My gear is going to be slung around my neck and shoulders and travel on a city bus or train so I can’t carry a lot of stuff, like people who drive. It is best to avoid recording from a

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread tim cumings
I would not recommend a figure 8 pattern if you are sitting in the audience and want to record the people on stage. A firugre eight microphone picks up equally from the front and the back of the mic, so it would pick up the audience as well as the people on stage. You probably want a pair  of

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread Hamit Campos
A pair of Matched SE-7s should do. I was going to ask if it had to be dynamic or condencer but he says he'll be in the audiance so that means he's pretty far. No not realy but I'm not sure how far dynamics hear. So SE-7s would do. They're only $199 for a stereo matched pair. On 9/23/2019 6:54

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, A portable cardioid or shot-gun microphone taken by each speaker will give the best results but there is going to be some handling noise. Unless the mics are very expensive. The common terms are omni-directional and figure 8 polar patterns that may meet the criteria as expressed. The

Re: [all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread tim cumings
Hi, Steve. It depends what type of microphone you are talking about. If you mean a standard cardioid microphone, that might work fairly well. If you meansomething that is even more directional, like a shotgun microphone, it might be difficult if there are multiple speakers on the stage, since

[all-audio] Uni-directional Microphones

2019-09-23 Thread Steve Jacobson
Does anybody have experience with using a uni-directional microphone to record a presenter at a meeting from the audience? I know there are directional microphones that work well to allow a speaker to be picked up at a close range while suppressing feedback, for example, but I am interested in