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bluetweed 10-30-2017 04:20 AM

Single vs Dual Diaphragm
 
Does the Cardioid position sound with any mic design suffer if its a dual diaphragm verses single diaphragm. Would the single capsule sound better?

KevWind 10-30-2017 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by bluetweed (Post 5521036)
Does the Cardioid position sound with any mic design suffer if its a dual diaphragm verses single diaphragm. Would the single capsule sound better?

Thats a good question..... I don't know what exact physics might relate , but "all things being equal" an
additional diaphragm and circuitry would incur more expense, for the same quality.

Brent Hahn 10-30-2017 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by bluetweed (Post 5521036)
Does the Cardioid position sound with any mic design suffer if its a dual diaphragm verses single diaphragm. Would the single capsule sound better?

By dual-diaphragm you mean two diaphragms back to back, right? Like a Neumann KM86? That's the only one I've used, afaik, and it sounds great in every pattern.

rick-slo 10-30-2017 09:38 AM

Read:
http://cdn.shure.com/publication/upl...hragm_mics.pdf

Brent Hahn 10-30-2017 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by rick-slo (Post 5521252)

The off-axis low end behavior shown in the graphs is interesting. Food for thought.

Al Acuff 10-30-2017 01:15 PM

The folks at Shure seem to feel that two diaphragms offer sonic benefits. I own their KSM8 Dualdyne mic and IMHO it's a winner. Currently my favorite stage mic.


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