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Theile Trapezoid The "Theile trapezoid" is also called the "cardioid trapezoid." It has two different names for the same thing. Its setup is pretty straightforward and done quite fast, if you have all material at hand. Dr. Günther Theile is a well-known tonmeister who has…

Synchronize it! We discussed the advantages of use different layers while connecting the microphones of the arrays to your recorders. YES! Plural! And this leads us to the important topic of synchronization! Since there are many mobile recorders out there, we can't provide a solution…

Shopping lists Here you will find some shopping lists with all the parts you need to setup the described microphone system. PLEASE, PLEASE understand them as what they are intended to be: An example. It may happen, that you have most of the parts in…

New news ! We just uploaded the tutorial and the shopping list for the Bowles array classic. In the tutorial we added a very special feature: How to fly this array. This was added at the request of David Bowles. The article is available here.

Name your recordings Recording is a creative process, and it's easy to get caught up in the flow and forget something very important: Name your recordings! But not with “Rec1,” “RecA,” “Take001_20251115.” You might remember where everything is until you return to the studio at…