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LOM Geophone This is a very nifty and reliable microphone. Actually, it is not a usual microphone. It's a so called "geophone". It was originally designed for seismic measurements, but serves pretty well for recording very low frequencies. It's hard to get one, as LOM…

Know your knowledge You know this for sure: You read something somewhere, but a week later, you're no longer completely sure about the details. There is so much to learn about ambisonics and related topics, and even more to discover. When we first entered this…

Know your Zoom F8n (Pro) To improve readability, we will refer to the Zoom F8n and Zoom F8n Pro as the 'F8n' for short. Any differences between the models will be mentioned explicitly. This is about one of our most frequently used recorders and contains…

Know you gear! "Know your gear!" should be a sticker on every sound engineer's bags. This is both simple and true! Many of the available articles, tips and tricks originate from this. We recommend that every junior sound engineer take the time to get to…

IRT cross It consists of four cardioid microphones arranged in a square. The microphones are angled 90 degrees from one another and spaced 20 to 25 cm apart. With wide cardioids it should be 31 cm. But these microphones are not very common in the…