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If I was standing in the wide open great outdoors (deep water), pointing my microphone at lets say a bird in a tree, that microphone is designed to concentrate primarily on the bird. Of course it’s going to pick up other noises too, but the bird is the target and that should be the ‘loudest’.
Correct, and you would get clearer, more accurate information in that direction. The signal to noise ratio would be better.