On 07/01/2013 06:47 AM, Robert Greene wrote:
Embarrassing that after a century and more of recording.
there are NO comprehensive demo discs of what really happens
to controlled known acoustic sources. Really makes audio
look like a silly subject. One hundred years--the scientific
world in that time discovered quantum mechanics, relatively,
nuclear energym lasers, the genetic code,
the human genome--and audio is still uncertain which mike
technique really reproduces the live sound. Embarrassing
altogether.
what is this rant about?
every recordist who's at least half serious about her/his tools has made
those very test recordings with various miking techniques, knows their
properties quite intimately, and choses the most appropriate for each
recording depending on acoustics, disposition of the instruments, and
above all, taste. and there are hundreds of comprehensive demos of every
conceivable stereo technique under the sun, with all kinds of source,
and recording professionals have listened to them and honed their skills
with them for decades.
two-speaker stereo, in terms of spatial accuracy and precision, is more
like a charcoal sketch than a photograph (much less a hologram) of the
real thing. to claim otherwise is just witch-doctoring, and no amount of
POA/UHJ sacred chicken blood is going to make this any more true.
knowing this, most engineers prefer a technique which adds an additional
layer of abstractness or interpretation or whatever, to convey an _idea_
through a _very_limited_ medium. it's a matter of personal preference,
and ranting about this is about as useful as pointing out to picasso how
a six-color inkjet would have fixed the disturbing blue tint of some of
his paintings, and that the perspective is a little off...
like you, i do prefer co-incident miking, but honestly, i don't see how
the wide-spread preference for spread omnis can be construed as the end
of scientific thinking.
best,
jörn
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Jörn Nettingsmeier
Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487
Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio)
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http://stackingdwarves.net
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