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From: sklower%okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower)
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Subject: Re: mis-attribution/Calrec mike
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Date: 28 Nov 90 14:43:38 GMT
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In article <7877@uwm.edu> Steve_Graham@ub.cc.umich.edu writes:
>Nimbus uses ambisonics for recording their albums.
> 

About a year or so ago, somebody offered such a microphone for
sale over the net.  I asked him if he was feeling generous to
send anything he had already typed in (even though I wasn't likely
to buy it but was curious).  Unfortunately I'e thrown the reply
away long since, but I do remember him saying that
nimbus had ceased using the  Calrec mike, and that instead
they were using 2 senheiser figure-of-8 mikes and a B&K omni.

The fellow made the claim that many op-amps were used in the
controller for the mic, and that the nimbus people felt that
made it sound ``over-processed''.

At the time, he was offering it for $3k, when it had sold for $6K new.

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