Earthworks C&C30 User Manual

Summary of C&C30

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    Near-perfect polar response will allow placing the microphones closer to the choir (as close as 3 feet). The height of the microphone should be in line with the head of the highest singer in the choir. When miking choirs with an orchestra or band in front of the choir, the microphone head should be ...

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    Congratulations on your purchase of earthworks hanging choirmic™ c30/c (cardioid) or c30/hc (hypercardioid) microphones. You will be thrilled with the results that will be obtained using these microphones on your choir. You will hear far more detail with no spotlighting or hot spots, a more uniform ...

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    Warranty & repair on-line warranty registration you can perform the warranty registration for your earthworks microphones on- line by visiting the earthworks web site at www.Earthworksaudio.Com look for the gold warranty seal on the front page of our web site, then click on it. You will be taken to ...

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    3 figure 3a. Typical pick-up area (with full frequency response) of an earthworks cardioid microphone indicated by extending arms figure 3b. Typical polar pattern (with full frequency response) of an earthworks cardioid microphone conventional polar response vs. Near-perfect polar response before re...

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    Installation and positioning of the choirmics™ notice in figure 12 what happens if the rear of the earthworks cardioid microphone is not positioned toward the orchestra or band. Choirmic™ design philosophy the majority of conventional hanging choir microphones suffer from several similar design flaws...

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    Figure 7. An 80-voice choir miked with 6 conventional microphones at 3 feet closer miking provides additional gain before feedback seasoned sound engineers know that placing a microphone closer to the sound source will result in additional gain before feedback. Figure 6 below, shows the same 80-voic...

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    This is what provides the directional characteristics of a cardioid microphone, in that it will pick up at the front and the sides and picks up far less at the rear, therefore making the microphone directional. However, this is textbook theory. This is much different in practice with real (imperfect...