Mic Placement Visualiser

[Rolo 46]

Pity no MS in that very effective display.

[MichaelPatrick]

The link you provided is NOS, a stereo mic positioning standard developed by Holland Radio (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting).

sengpielaudio's visualizer also displays other positions including XY:

Visualization of Microphone System XY cardioid 90° Intensity stereo - Stereo recording angle SRA time difference level difference orchestra angle degrees visualisator MS - sengpielaudio Sengpiel Berlin

When you are on the site note that angle and distance parameters are adjustable.

[stuartb]

Yes i understand that there are various mic techniques shown on that website, but one part of my question was me not really understanding the subtle differences that varying the angle and spacing of the mics, and why they are considered a separate micing technique, as opposed to variations on one technique.

The other part of my question was enquiring about the setup of XY mic config. from that website, it appears that in XY the butts of the mics are closest together, whereas i had always assumed that the capsules of the mics would be closest together?

maybe im not reading it correctly though?

[polytope]

Originally Posted by stuartb

Yes i understand that there are various mic techniques shown on that website, but one part of my question was me not really understanding the subtle differences that varying the angle and spacing of the mics, and why they are considered a separate micing technique, as opposed to variations on one technique.

The other part of my question was enquiring about the setup of XY mic config. from that website, it appears that in XY the butts of the mics are closest together, whereas i had always assumed that the capsules of the mics would be closest together?

maybe im not reading it correctly though?

I believe that those two short "sticks" do not represent the lengths of the mics. They're there to make specifying the angle easier. So the "butts" in the picture are actually the capsules.

[stuartb]

Originally Posted by polytope

I believe that those two short "sticks" do not represent the lengths of the mics. They're there to make specifying the angle easier. So the "butts" in the picture are actually the capsules.

ok that makes sense, and it means that my idea of an XY config is correct, Phew.

[Matti]

But I´ll remind you these don't advice you straight to the mics placements, rather show some of the qualities of different set ups forgetting other issues than polar patterns at a frequency - likely 1 KHz here ,but the polar patterns change versus freg.
But not the placement contra the object adviced here, how to say...

Matti