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08.08.2017

Building figure 8 mic for MS recording.

Since I work most of the time, when recording on locations, as solo. I have pretty limited options in terms of recording as much sound as possible. So after some thinking I found out that the best and easiest thing would be to get fig. 8 mic on top of my shotgun in order to get stereo sound as bonus when recording dialog. 

So, basically I want something like above. On the picture is CCM8 Schoeps fig. 8 capsule. That's pretty nice! The only issue is that it's also pretty expensive.

As usually after some time of mindless wandering thru search results about compact 8 microphones I got an idea. Build my own mic!. I wanted to build my condenser mic anyway, because it looks like really nice/useless project. But this could also have benefit of being quite useful! 

On this site https://microphone-parts.com I noticed there is smaller size condenser capsule for sale. If it's good enought for this site it might be interesting for my purpose. If you search for TSB-2555B you find not only better price from the supplier, but also a quite community built around this. There is quite a lot people building mics from this capsule using preamps based on Schoeps circuits. DIY mic also know as Alice.

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