26/02/2024
This Telefunken SM2 has almost 70 years and still sounds beautiful.
Just gorgeous on the Steinway D274.
It is the first stereo condenser mic ever produced, and since its creation in 1956 it remains one of the finest stereo microphones ever made.
It’s essentially a pair of KM56 microphones in one body, using the classic AC701 tube.
The upper capsule can be rotated over a range of 270 degrees. You can go omni, cardioid, 8 and all steps in between.
Thanks to that you can make XY, MS, Blumlein just by turning the top mic. Real Swiss knife.
To use as an X-Y microphone, cardioid is selected for each capsule, and the recording ‘aperture’ is controlled by the angle between the upper and lower capsules against the main axis.
For M-S recording, the capsules are positioned with the pattern for the M-channel set to cardioid and on-axis, while the S-channel is set to figure eight and offset by 90 degrees. The cardioid mic thus picks up the complete sound event exactly like the principal mic for a monaural recording, and all directional information is picked up by the figure eight capsule.
Blumlein by 90 degrees and 8 pattern.
The two mic outputs are combined in a matrix to form the sum and difference signals, which become the left and right channels (12 pins in the multipin cable).
Bellezón ❤️
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