Klarinet Archive - Posting 000632.txt from 2000/02

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: Microphones
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:10:49 -0500

>
> > In old time radio dramas, the actors would speak on either side
> of the old
> > RCA ribbon microphones. One would be out of polarity, but for
> mono spoken
> > voice, it really doesn't matter. Two crossed fig-8 patterns at 70-90
> > degrees is referred to as a blumlein pickup.
>
> Given the crossed-8 configuration, it's kind of a neat illustration of
> the meaning of the word "Blumlein" -- little flower. You can see the
> pedals criss-crossing the top of a daisy in this crossed figure eight
> pattern.
>

Sorry to disappoint you Neil, but it is named after the person that
developed it... Alan Dower Blumlein.

--Ben

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