sorry about not being able to post pic. Been crazy busy over her and not feeling so hot on top of that. Yeah, the 15″ mic does have a rather narrow pick-up pattern. I mainly use if for documentary-style shooting, where a group of people are talking, un-scripted, to the camera more or less. Sometimes to each other. The boom pole, thus, gets moved around a lot and noise from the bands gets picked up on the mic.I’m almost certain it’s from the mic bouncing up and down ever so slightly.
That’s why i was looking at that Rode NTG2. It’s shorter. lighter and has wider pick-up range.