Audio University channel is exactly that: an audio university. Your explanations are helping a lot of people right now.

Crazy I was just in school, learning about polar patterns and you made this video right on time!!!

A lot of well-deserved praise in the comments. AU makes audio-related content easy to digest without sacrificing necessary (vital) details and educational value.

I know I can always trust these Audio University videos to be really helpful.Thanks Kyle for another super informative and well presented video!

In the beginning I didn't think I would get much from your channel, all I wanted to do was record my classical guitar. I didn't need all that fancy technical stuff. Funny my recordings are getting a lot better, and I am starting to know what to change when they don't. Great stuff! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Finally, I understand how polar patterns work! Until now, the mechanics of it has always been a mystery to me. When I asked my teachers why polar patterns are the way they are, they would simply reply "because they are..." Can't wait to learn about interference tubes!

Thank you Kyle, absolutely brilliant practical presentation of a subject which is difficult to decipher even for engineers since microphone pattern documentation is deeply "buried" in sound engineering textbook. Your explanations and description of available pattern with real-life examples makes it almost easy to select proper microphones. Thank you, Ciao, L

I have never in my life recorded anything but the way you explain was enough to keep me listening, very well presented information and interesting topic. I feel like I've learned something essential yet I might never use it. Keep up the good work.

Excellent video! Super informative and easy to understand. Thanks! BTW...I recorded my last album with the Lewitt LCT 640 TS. That mic matched my voice so well that I went out and bought one so I'd never have to worry about using anything else. What a great mic!

Thanks, Kyle. This was great! I was aware of these things but I never bothered to look into them. I don't record much but I'm always happy to pick up random audio knowledge.

Great work! Btw, the mic fits your voice quite well. Sounds great!

Learn a lot in this video on how to read and understand mic polar pattern.

Currently enrolled in Blackbird Academy's Studio Engineering program in Nashville and your videos are helping further my understanding by leaps and bounds. Thank you!

You did a Great job explaining. Thanks

Too bad that I can give this video only one thumb up 😢 It’s so helpful for a newbie like myself that I really want to give you two thumbs up. Here they are: 👍 👍

This was more helpful than my study guides. Thanks 😊

Thank you so much for making this video. After reading about the different cardioid microphones, I had an idea about how the concept was applied in microphones, but after watching this video and your helpful explanation, I have a better understanding. I have been studying for CTS and I test on Monday, I had a few microphone questions on previous exams and I think that is one of the topics that got me. I feel a lot better going into my next exam after this video.

One of the BEST channels on KZfaq. Thank you for all tips and tricks. If you have online courses you developed, please let us know. Your teaching method is amazing!!!

Thanks for simplifying this important subject on microphones, will definitely be tuning in for more audio insights.

Sir you are an excellent teacher. I watched 3 of your videos and already learned so much. I mean I finally "get" microphones. Will be very useful for the times I need to record myself at home. Fascinating. Thank you.

Thank you for your sharing which is very clean and informative.

Very informative and interesting. Thank you for sharing.

you a good teacher man big up. I remember being the only one who remembered all the polar pattern in class when the lecture asked what we learned on previous class, And I must say I got more info from this video

Well said, the episode just synced with the previous one on mic choices. I have been using a Samson CO3U since 2016 and it has these 3 options which has helped me to deliver a better quality depending on my preferences while recording.

How politely and in easy to understand language you told almost complete things about this topic. every word was full of knowdge. thanks a lot sir .... keep educating us :)

This video answered all the questions I had and more. So good! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I should have paid for this level of value.

Wow I didn't know all these .thank you

Ive watch like 10 videos about it and this is absolutely the best by far

Well done! Nicely explained. I'd take issue with only one thing: you will not get nice stereo with a pair of spaced omnis, and I wouldn't choose them for location recording! It will give you two different channels, but there will be no stereo image to speak of. The mathematics of the Blumlein pair (either as crossed cardiods or figure-eights) gives you a proper image. There's no 'hole in the middle' effect. I've done a lot of stereo work with crossed fig-8 mics. When doing stereo recordings with actors in a studio, it's really important to make them aware they can only stand at the mic in two opposite quadrants: the other two quadrants, at the sides, result in out of phase sound between the two channels. We used to put tape strips on the studio carpet to mark the safe areas! Figure of eight mics in particular are invaluable for multi-mic techniques (orchestras, self-balancing bands of all sorts, etc.) and you are dead right that you use them to null out sound you don't want, leaving what you do want. They even have value in PA applications, for example rigged underneath a grand piano, so the dead axis faces outwards towards the PA system and the auditorium. A thick carpet offcut on the floor underneath helps too. Unobtrusive, hard to knock out of position, really clean sound. I'd do that over cardioids any day, not least because figure-8s are _really_ dead off-axis. Take a good ribbon outdoors on a very-still-air day (or an anechoic chamber) and walk round it: you seem to jump to hundreds of feet away - it's amazing.

Ultimate teaching❤

Best explanation on KZfaq. Instantly subscribed!

Nice one bro 🤌 It's also nice to know in which stereo recording setups to use what pattern. Omnidirectional for AB Cardioid for XY and ORTF

i learned about things i didn't know were things i didn't know about. awesome

You're so informative I love this

Great video! Will you do one on why musicians shouldn't cup their mics?

Another great video, thank you. Sharing this with my audio production students today.

Wow! Very interesting, educative, and brilliantly presented! Well done!

Excellent video on Mic intro. Thank you.

You explain stuff well. Thank you.

Really awesome video!

Best explanation ever

Good stuff ,clearly explained 👍

Brilliant stuff 👏🏼

Clean and clear explanation,thanks!

Another brilliant explanation, thank you.

I have been contemplating making a video to show to rookie microphone users........... You know exactly who I am talking about. The person who holds the mic at their belt buckle, talks OVER the capsule whilst holding it vertically, and then walks right up to the speaker with it, giving you a rude look when it feeds back.

Great! Loved it.

Thanks!

That was a great explanation, very good work! 👍💪

Great 💪💪💪 Thank You ✔

Very nice, as usual. Thanks ;)

Excellent !!!

Thank you❤

perfect vid - 10 points

great video

Good e[planation but IMO you gave the impression that the impedance was just some property of the cable. The signal source impedance and the amplifier input impedance are arguably much more important for good common mode cancellation.

Thank you

Kyle, I need to hire someone to do the testing on a new audio cable I have filed Patent on. It is necessary for me to get a third-party testing of capacitance resistance etc. along with a video explaining the attributes of this new kind of the cable. I’ve tried other means of contacting you but I’ve been unsuccessful. I do have monies budgeted for these services.

Your posts are so useful and on point. I often have to mic a grand piano for stereo recording. In the past, I have stumbled over phasing issues that can make miking an instrument with two mics sound unpleasant. Do you have any tips on mic placement to avoid phase cancellation issues?

Nice video. Many times, though, the word is FARther not FURther. FARther refers to distance. FURther refers to amount as in more or in addition. Cheers.

The proximity effect is unique to cardiod mics? I thought all mics had that effect

Is omni mode recorded volume less than the sound recorded in cardoid mode, same distance? My u87ai does that. Quality is good. But when I record in omni dorecrion and then keep the distance and my voice volume same and change the mode to cardoid, I find omi comune is less than the sound recorded in cardoid. Appreciate for posting this video

GOAT

I love the informative content, but I have a sneaking suspicion that some editing was done to over-emphasize the rear and side rejection of the first two patterns.

I understand what they do, I do not understand HOW they do it, is it sound processing? does it have multiple microphones? is it sorcery?

Is bidirectional used for interviews?

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lewitt mics are amazing how is the 640 ts??? is it good enough for even vocal recording? i can't choose between 540 s and 640 ts HELP

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show 3 d spheres etc,,, not flat paper 2d

5:59 y'all don't know how expensive that microphone is. Are you secretly batman? Do you have millions offshore in panama?

Is omnidirectional not affected by proximity effects?