so I will go ahead and try. eight channels because it is easy to do with a motu 
8pre. I can use a pair of Brahma PPAs and splitters to XLR. The microphone 
itself can output to a pair of 5-pin xlrs, unbalanced, to feed the PPA.
I ordered 10 capsules. They are 18 mm outer diameter (probably a 15 mm capsule) 
and their lengths are 12 cm end to end. Doing an octahedron of supporting rings 
is easier to do than a tetra!
umashankar

> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 04:37:29 +0300
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sursound] 8 channel microphone
> 
> On 2015-04-15, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> 
> > But I see a more serious problem. Shotgun mics work by integrating 
> > pressure over their lenght. That means that the effective radius (the 
> > one that determines phase/time differences between capsule signals) 
> > will be around half the physical one. And that is rather large, it 
> > means that any linear A/B matrixing will start to break down around 2 
> > kHz.
> 
> Also, shotguns by design have lots of frequency dependent nulls in their 
> directional pattern, and the pattern itself is likely a mixture of lots 
> of spherical harmonics of varying, high order, probably with directional 
> aliasing already folded in for good measure. I would imagine it to be 
> rather difficult to invert the resulting system into something well 
> behaved.
> 
> > Anyway, how to calibrate such a thing and get the best out of it is 
> > difficult to say without first studying a set of measurements.
> 
> Agreed. Never say never.
> -- 
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