Introduction The MKH 418-S stereo shotgun mic was introduced in 2003, creating – by addition of a fig 8 capsule – what was essentially a mid-side (MS) version of the popular mono MKH 416 shotgun mic. The new MKH 8018 does something similar for…

This might be one of my shortest blog posts ever, but that’s doubtless a refreshing change from some of my very long ones, especially if you read them on your phone! Anyway, I was just putting together the gear for a recording tomorrow morning…

In Part 1 of this three-part series of musings on double mid side (DMS), I went through the three rigging options; in Part 2 I tested the options; but in this final part, as the title says, I do something rather different, which is…

Introduction In Part 1 of this three-part blog-post on double mid-side I covered the rigging options for DMS using SDC mics. In this second part, I explore the differences between the rigging options, focusing on the option with side-by-side end-address cardiods and the, theoretically,…

Introduction Like many, I have used double mid-side (DMS) from time to time and, doubtless less typically, I have used horizontal native B-format arrays too: I have written a couple of blog posts on the latter already. Given that DMS can be converted to…