Re: useing shotgun mics

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Roy W. Rising" wrote ...
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Once again, the shotgun mike does not do what you think it does. The
Focal book on microphones does a good job of explaining it, but ten
minutes with a pair of headphones and you'll figure it out. For the
most part, shotguns will help with external noise outside but they
just make room ambience problems worse indoors.
--scott

One way to look at is ... "Our *most-directional* mics are very much
like
fish-eye lenses". The EV Model 643 was used for many years to pickup
questions from reporters at Presidential news conferences. The 643 is
about seven feet long and weighs about 12 pounds. They worked well for
the
purpose, but required operators on someone's payroll.

Here's more: http://www.coutant.org/ev643/index.html

Those photos all seem "naked".
Didn't they have some sort of windscreen (something like the
zepplins used today)? I have vague recollections of seing them
in presidential press conferences where there was one on either
side of the press corps. They looked bigger (larger in diameter)
as I recall. I thought it was because of the windscreen.

Indeed, the 643 was equipped with a foam windscreen setup. It's diameter
matched the "rings" at the ends of the waveguide(s). It is shown in Fig. 1
and in the photo on the data sheet. The element at the rear was surrounded
by two conical foam screens.

--
~
~ Roy
"If you notice the sound, it's wrong!"
.

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