Hi everyone, this is John from Zoom, and I’m here to show you Zoom’s line of interchangeable microphone capsules. Swap capsules as easily as changing the lens on your camera, allowing you to record in virtually every environment.
The X/Y miking technique is optimal when you want to cover a wide area and still capture sound sources in the center with clarity and definition, making it great for all types of live stereo recording. The Zoom H5 package includes the XYH-5 and the H6 package includes the XYH-6. Both feature two matched high-quality cardioid unidirectional microphones. This kind of microphone is most sensitive to signal coming from directly in front, and less sensitive to signal coming from behind or from the sides.
Playing back stereo X/Y tracks in mono results in a fuller sound than you would get with one microphone, but if mono compatibility is critical (for example, in television production), the Mid-Side (MS) mic technique can be a better choice.
Mid-Side recording is an incredible technique that allows you to adjust the width of the stereo image after it has been recorded. Although the MSH-6 MS capsule appears to be just one microphone, it actually contains two mic elements, positioned directly on top of one another. One of the microphones inside the MSH-6 is unidirectional, while the other is bi-directional.
The basic concept behind MS recording is that the Mid microphone picks up signal coming from the center, while the Side microphone creates ambience and directionality by adding or subtracting information from either side. The Mid-Side technique works well whenever you need a variable amount of room sound.
Zoom also offers two shotgun microphone capsules: the SGH-6 and the SSH-6. A “shotgun” is a long, cylindrical microphone which excels at picking up sounds in front of it while rejecting sounds to the sides and rear. Shotgun microphones are often used when you can not position a microphone directly in front of a sound source. For example, if someone is speaking in front of a video camera and you don’t want them to hold a microphone, the solution is to use an off-screen shotgun mic.
Shotgun mics have a narrower focus than the average microphone. Even though they do an above-average job of picking up sounds that originate from a short distance away, they always sound better when they’re physically close to the sound source. That’s why whenever you use a shotgun mic, you should always strive to get as close as possible to the sound source, which often means hovering right at the edge of the frame of a shot.
The SGH-6 is a mono shotgun microphone and the SSH-6 is a stereo shotgun microphone. The SSH-6 uses a Mid-Side recording technique, so you can choose to mix in ambient sound from the sides, or disable the side mic to record in mono.
If you just need more inputs, simply plug in the EXH-6 capsule which features two XLR ¼” combo inputs. It allows you to connect two additional discrete channels for external microphones, instruments, mixers or portable music players.
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15 сен 2024
