[Marco Zambrano]

Hello to everybody.
last summer I worked on a documentary here in Italy for a german production. They asked me to use M/S technique to record everything: not only ambient soundscapes, but dialogues and interviews too. The thing I find most diffucult when using a figure of eight microphone, on a cardioid or an hypercardioid microphone, is to avoid handling noise to wich that pattern is prone (I use a rycote system with lyres and a double clip connecting the two microphones, on a vdb boom pole). I can imagine the editor will use mainly the sound from the cardioid mic for the dialogues and the interviews, leaving a bit of the figure of eight to make the sound wider, but for sure he will find some handling noise in those recordings, specially in the moving shootings (that I’m not experienced enough to be a boom operator using m/s is an option).
So I’m curious to listen to the opinion of more experienced people than me.
How useful can be to use M/S recording technique for recording every situation in a documentary?
Would you use m/s technique just for the ambient sounds?
Many thanks.

[Marco Zambrano]

Hello,
I’m sure the problem is not cabling or handling noise.
Actually I’m using the mic for a tv series here, and I solved the problem pretty well adding a fur cover over the foam windscreen.
Is there some way to attach audio files in this forum? I have some beyer mc950 recordings for people interested; I know it’s not very used, especially outside Europe.
Many thanks.

Marco