what mic is this?

I don't know, but it looks like the guitar is plugged in straight, and blended with the vox picked up by the mic.
 
Didn't look at the link, but stereo shotgun mics can be had by Audio-Technica, Sennheiser, Neumann, Sanken, Sony, as well as others.
 
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It certainly isn't stereo - hardly any width info at all. When the female sings - it doesn't get wider. Best guess - mono, with the guitar blended and a touch of artificial reverb - as the room doesn't look that live.
 
paulears said:
It certainly isn't stereo - hardly any width info at all. When the female sings - it doesn't get wider. Best guess - mono, with the guitar blended and a touch of artificial reverb - as the room doesn't look that live.
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Listening closely with headphones reveals some width. Listen to her tap on her knee... that is most certainly favoring the left of the image, and I believe he's more centered on the mic than she is. There's also some more evident imaging in the applause, assuming they didn't have a separate set of mics up for the room.
 
The following is an opinion.

Getting away from what the actual brand of this microphone is I have to ask, why would you want to use a stereo shotgun in this situation in the first place?
Voices come from a single point which makes recording in a stereo pretty useless. They are also sitting so close to each other (I assume to keep the stereo image centered)
that at BEST their voices are only going to be a fraction off from center and probably just sound more like a mistake than "stereo".
Use a stereo mic to capture stereo type sounds.

Not to mention I think the overall recording from this mic sounds pretty mediocre at best. Sounds pretty thin and unattractive.
 
btw to answer the OP's question it's a Senn 418

* In the spirit of the Tiny Desk Concerts, we don¹t always know beforehand
how many musicians will arrive or even what instruments/arrangements will be
played. After a quick set up we generally have the act play a half-song for
levels, and the show begins. For ease of use and flexibility, I have fallen
in love with the Sennheiser 418s mid/side stereo shotgun mic:
http://www.sennheiser.co.uk/uk/home_en.nsf/root/professional_wired-microphon
es_broadcast-eng-film_005284
 
Well Damn Ripple take all the fun out. I was betting on a stereo Ribbon like this one.

As to the recording I think it's a mistake to think this was just the raw track. The opening guitar certainly sounds like it's off the pickup. Since they have a mid and side feed the Side would probably do a decent job on the guitar so they may cross over to it for the wider shot.


"Stereo Shotgun" is really a contradiction in terms. The mics would be more accurately named "Stereo or Shotgun" and really the ones I have actually used it's closer to "Stereo or Hyper".
 
I think this recording sounds pretty good, especially if it was super quick & dirty - half a song for levels and go. But I'm an old Low fan, so I may be biased.
 
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