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Gear This is one important axiom about sound engineering: Once you've been infected with the “sound virus”, you'll never recover from it. Period! One symptom of the sound virus is that you will never have enough gear, and you will certainly never ever have the…

Fukada Tree When you look at the Fukada tree setup, you immediately think of a Decca tree. The main difference, though, is that it uses cardioid microphones instead of omnidirectional ones in the Decca tree. There are also two additional omnis used as outriggers, which…

Four Small-Diaphragm-Condensor microphones with cardioid pattern ... to be precise. Why are we mentioning this here? Because they are extremely versatile and can be used to set up various systems. You can use the four microphones in a cross configuration to make ITU 5.0 surround…

Figure-of-eight - Make one out of two! If you're on a budget and can only dream of owning a figure-of-eight microphone from a well-known global vendor, you can find workarounds, IF you know your gear and a few other details. Now, let's take a closer look…

FOA in native B-format with LDCs In case you have four Large Diaphragm Condenser (LDC) microphones and they do have multi patterns, you could try the following setup: We build this with two AKG C 414 XLII (gold) and two AKG C 414 XLS (silver).