Digitally Enhanced Shotgun Microphone with Increased Directivity

Faller C, Favrot A, Langen C, Tournery C, Wittek H. Digitally Enhanced Shotgun Microphone with Increased Directivity. In: AES Convention 129. Audio Engineering Society; 2010. Paper 8187. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15609

@inproceedings{Faller2010_15609,
  author = {Faller, Christof and Favrot, Alexis and Langen, Christian and Tournery, Christophe and Wittek, Helmut},
  title = {{Digitally Enhanced Shotgun Microphone with Increased Directivity}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 129},
  note = {Paper 8187},
  year = {2010},
  month = nov,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15609}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Digitally Enhanced Shotgun Microphone with Increased Directivity
AU  - Faller, Christof
AU  - Favrot, Alexis
AU  - Langen, Christian
AU  - Tournery, Christophe
AU  - Wittek, Helmut
T2  - AES Convention 129
M1  - Paper 8187
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010/11/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15609
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Shotgun microphones are still state-of-the-art when the goal is to achieve the highest possible directivity and S/N ratio with high signal fidelity. As opposed to beamformers, properly designed shotgun microphones do not suffer greatly from inconsistencies and sound color artifacts. A digitally enhanced shotgun microphone is proposed, using a second backward-oriented microphone capsule and digital signal processing with the goal of improving directivity and reducing diffuse gain at low and medium frequencies significantly, while leaving the sound color essentially unchanged. Furthermore, the shotgun microphone's rear lobe is attenuated in level.
ER  -