Is that really true outside of the stupidly expensive musical instruments such as the U47 which have a sonic signature bordering on 'broken'? Can someone listen to a finished mix and say 'ah xyz on kick, abc on cymbals etc for modern high quality units vs ancient tone controls?
Brilliant, Howie. May-be not the case, but brilliant.
Those measurements leave me speechless. I dont believe that such intermodulation could have gone unnoticed, especially with 12-string guitars.
Even at very low level, every parasitic frequency under the fondamental is something of very audible, I think. May-be i'm wrong ?
It's very confusing, It's worth digging deeper.
You can't say this.
We know all the bumps in the high medium, and the effect of proximity in the low medium (in cardioid), but they are of a ... surgical precision . Microscopes. Unequaled for human voices till now, on my taste.
I owned, during all my professional life, a very old one, tube powered, internal grill removed, found by me in a English studio as exceptional, that I bought at the price of gold. Everybody used to say "Wow" when I used-it in studios.
I would not have sold it for all the gold in the world.
I gave it to a talented young sound engineer whom I love as my son. But, you are right: A musical instrument. A stradivarius .
He will not sell-it for all the gold of the world.
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Wow - a lot of really great recordings were made with broken mics.
WRT identifying mics from a recording, in reality it's not very easy, given the
plethora of mic pre's used, all of which have their own signature. Many
peoples analog IP chain (to digital) will also include a compressor.
So at the end of the day, the IP chain might go through quite a few
transformers, valves, some kind of gain reduction element (VCA / FET /
Opto) and maybe even some EQ.
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Here, try one of these:
RODE Microphones - S1
I don't see them very often but I'm also sure not many engineers know of
them.
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A lot of great music is poorly recorded*. A lot of well recorded music is rubbish . I have no issue with a 50 year old microphone being used as a tone control, I just feel it should be accepted that its rubbish, but in a good way .
*If the music is good I don't care about the quality. I'd take Rachmaninoff playing his own works off acoustic 78s over the latest greatest issues.
. I have no issue with a 50 year old microphone being used as a tone control, I just feel it should be accepted that its rubbish, but in a good way . *If the music is good I don't care about the quality. I'd take Rachmaninoff playing his own works off acoustic 78s over the latest greatest issues.
A lot of great music is poorly recorded*. A lot of well recorded music is rubbish
*If the music is good I don't care about the quality. I'd take Rachmaninoff playing his own works off acoustic 78s over the latest greatest issues.
Sinatra is rubbish - in a good way?
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Just baffle the acoustic input at the same position with something non-magnetic. I think you will be surprised, all precision acoustic instrumentation applications use condenser mics some are <1% at 150dB SPL. There are lots of potential distortion mechanisms in dynamic microphones that are not in condenser mics.
Of course they are, many of the recordings have been hammered.
But many of his recordings are really good. Same mic.
Most importantly, that mic suits his voice beautifully.
That's what engineers are looking for, not some kind of distortion
measurement.
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Most of the ECM8000's distortion at higher SPL is coming from the capsule's JFET wired as gain stage, not as a buffer. Once rewired to buffer (see Linkwitz mod) it fares much better (but not great as freq response isn't well defined/controlled)
I would suggest someone (George
) find a link to an old "Chat With Harvey (Gerst)" for a run down on various mics. Yes I agree with John there ae some basics being overlooked here. OTOH I'm sure there are some mic capsules out there fully capable. Transound makes a 1" condenser capsule in Taiwan for ~$30 in singles the impedance converter that Jan used for his Triode Fest entry is more than capable of extracting everything you need.Attachments
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I had one on test for a gig, 10 years ago or such. Used-it for one of the female chorister to try. (I Did not want to take any risk with the leader singer.) Found-it warm and light sounding. Good larsen rejection. Indeed.
Only defect, If I remember well, a little prone to be too sensible to the drum's cymbals if too close.
It was near the end of my professional activity, so ...
To advise, yes, I believe. Thanks.
It changes, but I see no reason for it being less controlled. It would need recalibration not easily done by the user. For low frequency distortion measurement I see no material changes.
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