A sound capture system comprising: a first number of omnidirectional first microphones that provide first output signals with an omnidirectional response pattern and that are disposed on a first open sphere at different positions at a first equidistance from a point of symmetry; a second number of omnidirectional second microphones that provide second output signals with an omnidirectional response pattern and that are disposed on a second open sphere at different positions at a second equidistance from the point of symmetry; a center omnidirectional microphone that provides a fourth output signal with an omnidirectional response and that is disposed at the point of symmetry; an evaluation circuit that is configured to receive the first output signals and the second output signals, and to produce from the first output signals fifth output signals with a directional response pattern and to produce from the second output signals third output signals with a directional response pattern, wherein the evaluation circuit is further configured to receive the fourth output signal from the center microphone and to superimpose the output signal of each of the first microphones with the fourth output signal from the center microphone to produce, in response thereto, the fifth output signals with a directional response pattern; and a modal beamformer arrangement comprising a first signal chain, a second signal chain, a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter and an adder, the adder being coupled with the first signal chain via the low-pass filter and with the second signal chain via the high-pass filter, the first signal chain being supplied with the third output signals and the second signal chain being supplied with the fifth output signals; where the second number is a multiple of two; the first equidistance is smaller than the second equidistance; each of the second microphones forms with another of the second microphones a pair of second microphones, the microphones of a pair of second microphones being disposed in line with each other and the point of symmetry; and the first signal chain and the second signal chain each comprise a matrixing modul (1101, 1105), a rotating module (1102, 1106), a modal weighting module (1103, 1107) and a summing module (1104, 1108). a first number of omnidirectional first microphones that provide first output signals with an omnidirectional response pattern and that are disposed on a first open sphere at different positions at a first equidistance from a point of symmetry; a second number of omnidirectional second microphones that provide second output signals with an omnidirectional response pattern and that are disposed on a second open sphere at different positions at a second equidistance from the point of symmetry; a center omnidirectional microphone that provides a fourth output signal with an omnidirectional response and that is disposed at the point of symmetry; an evaluation circuit that is configured to receive the first output signals and the second output signals, and to produce from the first output signals fifth output signals with a directional response pattern and to produce from the second output signals third output signals with a directional response pattern, wherein the evaluation circuit is further configured to receive the fourth output signal from the center microphone and to superimpose the output signal of each of the first microphones with the fourth output signal from the center microphone to produce, in response thereto, the fifth output signals with a directional response pattern; and a modal beamformer arrangement comprising a first signal chain, a second signal chain, a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter and an adder, the adder being coupled with the first signal chain via the low-pass filter and with the second signal chain via the high-pass filter, the first signal chain being supplied with the third output signals and the second signal chain being supplied with the fifth output signals; where the second number is a multiple of two; the first equidistance is smaller than the second equidistance; each of the second microphones forms with another of the second microphones a pair of second microphones, the microphones of a pair of second microphones being disposed in line with each other and the point of symmetry; and the first signal chain and the second signal chain each comprise a matrixing modul (1101, 1105), a rotating module (1102, 1106), a modal weighting module (1103, 1107) and a summing module (1104, 1108).