Attention, AV/Sync users: Available free from Crown International is
The Crown Mike Memo, a microphone newsletter published quarterly. It
covers new microphone products, microphone theory, and application
suggestions for Crown microphones.
Some of the microphones covered are the PZM (Pressure Zone Microphone),
PCC-160 (Phase Coherent Cardioid), and GLM (Great Little Microphone)
series.
The following are titles of recent articles:
PCCs Pick Up Boys' Choir
Reinforcing Traditional Instruments With GLMs
GLM-100 Flute Miking Experiments
Microphone Combining Circuit
GLM Circuit for Acoustic Guitar
Letters from Crown Microphone Users
New PZM Array Provides Outstanding Audio for Stereo TV
Novel Conference Miking with PZM-20RMGs
Hanging GLMs
Upright Piano Miking With GLMs
GLM Banjo Miking
Readers are encouraged to send in their own ideas, suggestions, and questions. These are published in the Mike Memo.
To obtain a free subscription, call or write Crown International, P.O. Box 1000, Elkhart, IN 46517.
(219)294-8000.btain almost any stereo pickup pattern. A complete description of the L SQUARED Array is in AES preprint 2025 (C-9), "The Use of Boundary Layer Effect Microphones in Traditional Stereo Miking Techniques.", presented at the 74th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, October 1983.
L SQUARED FLOOR ARRAY
Here's another stereo PZM array designed by Mike Lamm and John Lehmann of Dove & Note Recording, Houston, Texas. According to one user, "You can take this array, set it down, and just roll. You get a very close approximation of the real event."
Suspending the inverted array results in less bass and more highs, while placing it on the floor reverses the balance.
PILLON STEREO PZM ARRAY
This stereo PZM array was devised by Gary Pillon, a sound mixer at General Television Network of Detroit, Michigan. The assembly can be stand-mounted from the backside or hand- held if necessary.
