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That way you will ensure you have the same distance from the kick drum also. Both, snare and kick, will be centered on the stereo image.

MC012 are not the russian oktavas, are chinese copies. That's not necessarily true. Read this if you want to know more about Oktava copies. http://oktava.tula.net/fake/ "all original microphones manufactured after 01.01. 05 are labelled "Октава МК-012...

Crazy. I'm working on a project that I tracked a couple years ago in Recorderman style with Russian MC012s, and when I flipped the polarity on the kick drum mics I suddenly heard a nice kick drum sound again. The snare is all good in relation to the overheads, though. MC012 are not the russian okta...

True.

Even the most known oktava mods stay pin 3 positive.

Hi LeedyGuy, Russian Oktavas are phase flipped. Shouldn't they be fine relative to each other though? I guess I just assumed he meant the mics are out of ? with each other. I suppose reading it now he could mean the pair relative to the other drum mics. That's what i thought, both oktavas relative ...

Hi LeedyGuy,

Russian Oktavas are phase flipped.