Good mike choices for my cabinet

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Weird how my mind is working today. I noticed the LCT 640 has dual output. That is a feature I first noticed years ago with the Josephson C700 series mikes. The LCT still just has two opposed cardioids, so the main option is to select polar pattern after the fact by the ratio of mixing, which is a cool thing on its own.

A cool thing about the basic C700A is that it uses an omni capsule and a bidirectional capsule, so there is a separate signal that doesn't have proximity effect. A suggested application is to use the directional signal for the HF part of a vocal but roll off the lows on that signal, so that the lows all come from the omni. This could help mitigate proximity effect problems with any singer who moves around a lot and changes distance from the mike.

It's not $4900 worth of cool to me, but it does inspire me to try something similar using an SM81 cardioid stacked right over an SM80 omni and do the same type of processing.

Sorry for the thread detour.... I'll go away and try this stuff without any more intrusion here.

Otto

Josephson has outstanding products that are well thought out. I came to know them via their lab mics.