Wednesday, December 14, 2016

AKG D130 used as omnidirectional Blumlein pair

Inspired by the interview of Bruce Swedien on Sound on Sound...


2 AKG D130 1in each from singing male voice and at right angles touching each other were used.


The sound quality was phenomenal.


Each was connected to a Pleiades filter of 82 milliHenries.


After about 40 years of experimenting, happiness.


Setup:


AKG D130 - PLEIADES 82mH -

                                               - SONY TCD5 PRO II - SENNHEISER HD 580

AKG D130 - PLEIADES 85mH -


Bob Orban is right of course too. The simpler the signal path the better it sounds.


No need to compress or limit. Just sing at a very comfortable calm voice without stretching. The tape (Chrome TDK cassette) saturation makes wonders of the nasty peaks disappearing.


Without the Pleiades filters it sounds very unnatural and bass heavy.


Perhaps higher inductance than 85mH may be used. 333mH was bass heavy too.


The AKG D130 are amazing omnidirectional microphones.



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