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d:mension™ 5100 Mobile Surround Microphone is a plug and play solution for 5.1 capture. It employs five miniature pressure transducers with interference tubes and acoustic baffles.

MS Stereo combines two different microphone characteristics and a special matrix to create the stereo image and localization. M is an abbreviation for Mid, and S for Side.

Baffled stereo is a generic term for a lot of different stereo techniques using an acoustic baffle to enhance the channel separation of the stereo signals.

Multi-track recording techniques are mainly built up around a main stereo pair using the A-B Stereo principle. The stereo image is created from the main stereo pair and it is therefore extremely important to place the microphone pair correctly before any support microphones are set up.

The overall aim when recording large orchestras using just a main stereo pair is to faithfully reproduce the instruments and the concert hall. This juggling act requires more than a few compromises and the art is in reducing these compromises to a minimum.

The Wide Cardioid Surround Array (WCSA), introduced by Mikkel Nymand, provides equal timbral qualities, a high degree of envelopment and good low-frequency properties.

The Optimized Cardioid Triangle (OCT), is a microphone array for front-channel reproduction, initiated by Günther Theile & Helmut Wittek

The IRT Cross is designed for ambiance pickup. The setup consists of four cardioid microphones.

The Hamasaki Square consists of four bi-directional microphones arranged in a square. It is designed for the pick-up of ambient sound.

The Fukada Tree is an "original" sized decca tree array, but with five cardioid microphones and two additional omnidirectional microphones as outriggers to blend in between front and rear channels.

The double MS setup is a time coincident, compact and adjustable configuration for surround sound / immersive sound. Two cardioids and one figure-of-eight microphones are used. Alternatively, the setup is created from four cardioid microphones.

The Binaural recording technique uses two omnidirectional microphones placed in the ears of a dummy head and torso, also referred to as “Artificial Head”.