>From: Wild Sanctuary <>
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>> Many ways to skin the proverbial cat, Rich. Lang's is one fine
>> method. Clark at Cornell used the tetrahedral (hydrophone array and a
>> 4-channel recorder) pattern to track bowhead whale numbers and
>> location in the Beaufort Sea a while back. And yours is no doubt
>> viable, too. I disparage, disregard, or sniff at none of these
>> worthwhile efforts and continue to experiment with various M-S
>> combinations. Whatever brings more light to the subject and makes
>> folks happy, makes me real happy. I only point out that it's kinda
>> hard for most folks to hear the benefits of these efforts for reasons
>> posted in yesterday's exchange.
>
>That last is what finds me not on the surround bandwagon. I know that my
>stereo efforts won't even get the playback they should. Playback is
>really falling backwards if anything.
>
>I, too, enjoy all the ideas and totally reject few. We know far too
>little to know which will be the next leap forward. If there is one.
>
>Walt
>
To follow up with Walt's comment, I forgot to mention in my Tuesday
posting that, for our "Gandharva" recording in 1971, Warner Brothers
gave us a $135,000 budget to create the discrete surround recording
space in Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), provided a small sound
stage in LA to do the mix, and then hired The Grateful Dead (both
colleagues and friends) to provide a sound and playback system
installed in a theatrical space to play back the work for the press
upon the album's release. Since the recording was made in 1971, I've
only been able to hear the surround result two times in almost 34
years: The first was when we mixed the piece. The second was with the
generous help fo the Dead at the release party. BTW, the CD, which
has since been re-released as a double album (In A Wild
Sanctuary/Gandharva) is encoded for surround in all formats, but
aside from the re-mix, I've never been able to hear it on any system
I've got. It was fairly successful in Japan, though.
Bernie
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