Boom (sound engineering)

Boom (derived from the term "outriggers") are in the audio engineering a pair of support microphones to the main microphone system include. They serve to represent larger sound bodies on the loudspeaker base in a wider and more airy manner. This word became known especially through the use of the Decca Tree recording microphone system .

When miking with a microphone curtain of 5 or 4 microphones, all microphones of the microphone arrangement are equivalent and the outer "outriggers" are not to be regarded as support microphones in this case.

Several microphones in a row or in a surface can be combined to form an acoustic curtain or a microphone curtain.

literature

• Thomas Görne: Microphones in theory and practice. 8th edition, Elektor-Verlag, Aachen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89576-189-8

Web links

• The distribution of five phantom sound sources as a microphone curtain or as an acoustic curtain (PDF file; 262 kB)

• Decca Tree Recording with Outriggers (Ausleger) (PDF file; 136 kB)