WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REALLY REMEMBERED SOMETHING CALLED THE
The most common configurations for the capsule are stereo spaced | The Decca Tree has been used for years as an | |
pairs and the venerable Decca Tree. The spaced pair, as its name | symphonic and choral recording as well as film scoring. This technique requires | |
implies, constitutes a pair of identical microphones placed at a certain | three microphones, usually omnis, placed in a triangular array in front of the sound | |
distance from one another on the same horizontal and vertical plane | source. The Decca Tree is also known as an “LCR” array for “left, center, right.” The | |
equidistant from the sound source. Omnidirectional microphones are | left and right mics are placed approximately six feet apart on the same horizontal | |
the mics of choice for this application due to their relatively uniform fre- | and vertical plane, just as in a spaced pair. The center is placed directly in between | |
quency response at most angles of incidence. Though there are few | the left and right mics, but approximately 4.5 feet in front of them, forming the | |
hard and fast rules governing mic placement of spaced omnis, careful | “point” of the triangle. This array can be constructed using three separate mic | |
attention to the phase relationship (time |
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arrival) between the two mics will yield the |
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best results. One rule that should be |
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observed is the 3:1 rule which states that the |
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mics in a spaced pair should be at least three |
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times further apart from one another than |
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from the sound source — if the mics are two |
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feet from the source, they should be at least |
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six feet apart; if they are 15 feet from the |
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source, they should be at least 45 feet apart | STEREO SPACED PAIR | |
and so on. |
stands but
DECCA TREE |
To get the most out of the OmniMouse, it is essential to pair it with a
ERIES, ALL THE WAY UP TO OUR AWESOME BOTTLE MIC AND ITS FAMILY OF INTERCHANGEABLE CAPSULES. SO WHETHER YOU’RE RECORDING THAT NEXT PLATINUM ALBUM IN A