alex stone wrote: > > What's coincident stereo? coincident means that the signal was obtained with two directional microphones which are in the same spot. that means there is no time difference between them, so you can mix them down to mono if you want, without wrecking your sound with comb filtering effects. also called XY stereo, as opposed to AB stereo, where two mikes (most commonly omnis) are spaced apart and the stereo effect is caused by time differences only. combinations of the two (spaced and directional microphones) are also used frequently - google for NOS or ORTF microphone patterns. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user