CV4 Tube Microphone Owners Manual

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The instruments in the center of the two microphones will be
heard midway between the left and right speaker. With greater
distance, the off center images are less focused or more diffused.
This set-up tends to capture more ambience from the acoustical
space, which can be very pleasant to the listener, however the
signal tends not to be mono compatible. In some instances were
the microphones are very far apart, a third microphone can be
used in the center to reinforce the clarity of the center image.
Baffled
In a baffled stereo set up, two omni directional microphones are
placed roughly the distance between your left and right ears with
a physical hard or foam baffle placed in-between the two mics. It
uses time differences at low frequencies and level differences at
high frequencies to create the stereo image. The baffle creates a
difference in frequency response between the two microphones,
with less high frequency content heard from the further microphone. Therefore with the baffled set-up, the stereo signal
is achieved by the combination of the differences in level, time and frequency. With the baffled set-up the stereo image
has a tendency to be exaggerated and not mono compatible.
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