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DIRECTIVITE HYPERCARDIOIDE [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audio Technology
DEF

A microphone pick up sensitivity pattern where the least sensitive pick up point is more than 90 degrees but less than 150 degrees off axis (usually 120 degrees).

OBS

[A hypercardioid microphone's] front lobe is somewhat narrower than that of the cardioid microphone, and it possesses a small rear lobe in which the sound pickup is out-of-phase with that of the front lobe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électroacoustique
DEF

Directivité caractérisée par une réjection maximale des sons provenant des quarts arrière, gauche et droite [d'un microphone].

Spanish

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