For my applications I agree a larger diaphragm of 1/2" would be great
and going much larger one starts to worry about condensation and
humidity in outdoor recordings.
There is a growing number of people that are recording "faint field"
and it is the omni's that don't have the proximity effect and it is
the figure 8's that are most hard to find.
No one is really marketing a product for this area of recording and
what I see dominating the "faint field" right now is the Senn ME 62
condenser, and the MKH 20-P48 which is an RF.
I don't consider my uses to be in the majority but with more people
looking at the new digital recorders there is more of a demand for
lower noise and higher s/n numbers.
I am off traveling to record the great white north tomorrow sometime.
Will return sunday nite. Recording White Pines, Streams, and winter
birds in woodland new snow is true "faint field".
Rich Peet
--- In micbuilders@..., Bob Cain <arcane@a...> wrote:
mstrong82 wrote:
We make many kinds of ECM's It's time the WM-60/61 had some
competition. If
everyone can agree on what such a device ought to be, I'll run
some, pass them out
and you guys can see what you think.
What an interesting offer! Personally I'd be interested in
some with larger diaphragms, say 1/2", to increase the SNR
above the molecular shot noise and in directional models of
the same, particularly a cardiod and a figure 8.
Bob
--
"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."
A. Einstein
