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Old 04-22-2021, 09:11 AM   #19
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That seems a likely culprit: most multipattern condenser mics and even dedicated figure 8 condensers don't have symmetrical pickups in figure 8. As far as I know the only condenser that truly does it is the Sennheiser MKH 30. Ribbons usually do a better job in that department but you work with what you have....
Well, maybe I'm wrong then lol.

Actually, to your point, it looks like here: https://www.akg.com/on/demandware.st...r_Patterns.pdf The polar pattern doesn't appear to be perfectly symmetrical. So, maybe you're right about that. This isn't the exact model I used, but it's a modern version of it, so I think they should be similar in this respect.
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