At realistic levels, this recording of an actual cowbell should have a visceral feel and make your ears tingle. Test your speakers.
BTW, buy your own cowbell. I use this for an "almost" blind A-B test. If you can wave your cowbell in front of your left speaker and see if folks can't tell if the speaker or the bell is playing*.
Unlike the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, you actually CAN define what it means to play a cowbell in your music room. And less incendiary than doing an A-B with Danley's fireworks in your room.
B.
* Learned persons may dispute the precise value of a recording made in my fairly dead room and played in yours, even a close-mic'ed one. They might favour a recording made out of doors on a rope suspension bridge.
BTW, buy your own cowbell. I use this for an "almost" blind A-B test. If you can wave your cowbell in front of your left speaker and see if folks can't tell if the speaker or the bell is playing*.
Unlike the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, you actually CAN define what it means to play a cowbell in your music room. And less incendiary than doing an A-B with Danley's fireworks in your room.
B.
* Learned persons may dispute the precise value of a recording made in my fairly dead room and played in yours, even a close-mic'ed one. They might favour a recording made out of doors on a rope suspension bridge.
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I guess a lot of sounds, whether well recorded or badly, can have a visceral effect and make one's ears tingle when played loud enogh....
In the abstract that is true... for whatever might be the value of abstract word-play.
But the visceral feeling of the ability to realistically reproduce powerful transients is different from the feeling you get standing next to a car with an awful audio system cranked very loud.
B.
The familiar Parts Express EMM condenser mic, Behringer mic mixer, and phantom power supply, $4 old Creative DAC from Salvation Army. Mic on mic boom, 90-degree orientation, maybe a foot or two from cowbell. I hope this addresses your question and sorry I can't be more precise.
It was a gen-U-ine us$3.99 Harbor Freight steel cowbell:
Got a fever? Steel Cowbell - The Prescription For More Cowbell Sound
B.
I currently don't have a decent recording device. Otherwise I would have recoreded one of the cowbells from my brother in law (or his cows respectively ) . They are of the cast type like these ones:
Cowbells since 1730 - Bell Foundry Berger LLC
Regards
Charles
) . They are of the cast type like these ones:Cowbells since 1730 - Bell Foundry Berger LLC
Regards
Charles
