Tuesday 21 June 2011 at 16:05 outside a coffee shop on Wellington Place in Belfast Northern Ireland - Street-side ambient microphone test of the Audio Technica AT4050. Three recordings, one each comparing the omnidirectional, cardioid and figure-of-eight polar patterns.
AT4050 covered with home-made foam windscreen and fluffball, mounted with included shockmount on a full-size boom microphone stand, running on 48v phantom power from a Zoom H4n, with input recording levels set at 61. Audio captured in stamina mode at 44.1kHz/16kbps
This is my first experience with operating a large diaphragm mic. With the small diaphragm battery-powered condenser mics I usually use, the H4n input volume would have to be set at least in the 80s to get equivalent levels. By a large order of magnitude this mic is HOT. The clips are edited only for length and amplitude, which was raised by 4.093 across the board on all of them.
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Wave (.wav)
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4:18.942
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21.8 MB
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44100.0 Hz
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16 bit
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Mono
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