small diaphragm or large for overheads

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large diaphragm or small for drum overheads

  • large

    Votes: 9 33.3%

  • small

    Votes: 18 66.7%
  • Total voters
    27
dgatwood said:
Just to be pedantic, 3/4" is still considered an SDC. Well, I generally call the 2/3" and 3/4" capsules MDCs and anything below half an inch an SDC, but AFAIK, that's not a standard term by any means. The generally accepted cutoff for calling something an LDC is about an inch.
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Ive heard both schools of thought on this and the explanation Ive accepted due to the fact that the manufacturers call them LDCs has to do with the surface areas of the diaphram equaling the size of some wavelength or larger.

When I first looked through the screen of the AT3035s and the KSM32 with a light behind them I thought the same way.
 
Your poll presupposes that whatever generalizations one can make about the behavior of small- versus large-diaphragm mics will outweigh the particular characteristics of individual microphone make/models.

They won't.
 
Bob Ross said:
Your poll presupposes that whatever generalizations one can make about the behavior of small- versus large-diaphragm mics will outweigh the particular characteristics of individual microphone make/models.

They won't.
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Well said.
 
Why overheads? Why not under-asses? (Oh wait! Isn't this the cave?) :eek:

I think overheads are under rated. Or was it underarms are over rated? ...or underware. Hell, now I am confused.
 
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