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Old 7th September 2005   #9
DirkB
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ORTF with stereo matched pair SDC's.

Perfect compromise between phase coherency and stereo width.
X-Y is often too narrow for me.
However, I have no problem panning the ORTF mic's a little to the center when mixing... In fact in the mix I rarely have them hard L/R.

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Dirk
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