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RE: Coloration

Subject: RE: Coloration
From: Klas Strandberg <>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:06:21 +0100
Yes, you should! Then you also gain self-noise! (Have you read "Parabolic
microphones - reality, mono and stereo sound" at "whitepapers" at
telinga.com??) 

In the "old analog days" this parabol response was a problem, as the
high-frequency gain could cause tape-distortion. Then you had to turn down
the gain of the recorder to avoid that risk, but then you got tape noise
instead.

Klas.

At 17:12 2004-02-17 -0700, you wrote:
>One problem is that a parabola focuses the higher frequencies more than
>the lower frequencies, thus coloring the sound with and emphasis on the
>higher frequencies.  Sometimes I have to knock down the higher
>frequencies in the studio later to achieve a more natural sound when
>recording with the parabola.
>Kevin Colver
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg 
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