If it was serious, it would have a tone generator across all four B format outputs to allow you to accurately calibrate your recorder.
I asked sound field to do this, and they ignored it when doing the 450 and 450/2. But I have ranted about this before. jon On 21/09/2015 10:04, "Sursound on behalf of David Pickett" <sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu on behalf of d...@fugato.com> wrote: >At 09:39 21-09-15, Jon Honeyball wrote: > > >Looking at the sound field.com site, at the ST450 instruction manual, > >I see the pattern knob now goes to fig 8 (and not beyond it, unlike > >the ST350 control). But the “Width†control still goes to 10 and > >the instruction manual still says "Offers continuous adjustment of the > >stereo width from mono (‘0’) through to wide angle stereo > >(‘10’)†which is meaningless garbage. You’d think they could > >say “pattern at fig8 and width at 10 equals a classic 90 degree fig8 > >pair†to clarify things. > >I dont understand the thinking behind a piece of >gear aimed at professional use that relies on >potentiometers to set such crucial parameters, >and that without any attempt at calibration. A >Chinagraph mark or a scratch on the paint as a >reference where to reset the knob for future use >is not good enough and, when it comes to >adjusting spread, a figure of 0 to 10 means >nothing. RME uses a similarly unhelpful system >of 0 to 1 in Totalmix, but at least it is >accurately repeatable, and one can work out what >an n dB change to the M or S channel means in terms of angular spread. > >End of rant. > >David > >_______________________________________________ >Sursound mailing list >Sursound@music.vt.edu >https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit >account or options, view archives and so on. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
