To me, Ioaway is back East (no offense!) though I was just in Chicago
for two days...
California, just North of San Francisco. Call it Frisco if you want to
get even!
One of my favorite moments is when doing soundchecks, and I ask if the
piano sound is okay, and the pianist or someone else on stage says,
well, sorta... and I go up and wiggle the mics around while they play
and stand back, "How's that?" and they always, every time, say Wow!
That's great! I feel so magnificent...
It looks like mumbo jumbo but I listen as they play and can "see" with
my ears where they need to go. Some sorta magic!
But really, not a lot different from hearing the creature you want to
capture in audio and getting close enough (but not too close!) and
pointing a mic. Just a different audience, and a different instrument.
Thing is, the way to learn is is much more experience, guesswork, and
past mistakes than scientific. I can show you an acoustagraph (?) of
the sound radiation of a cello, and you still get to pick from millions
of subtle tone colors, just the way a photograph can vbe from any
direction and still look like a cello - unless you want it to look
different!
Anyway, don't let me subvert the topic and show off. I'm as mystified
by what we sound guys do as anyone. But the most mysterious is how bad
some people can do sound...
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Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Oct 20, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Allen Cobb wrote:
> Lou Judson wrote:
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>> But the minutiae of the millions of mic
>> positions for an acoustic piano are second
>> nature to me
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> Now THAT is what I was talking about! I would dearly love to
> learn some of that from a pro -- and a lot of other things
> related to recording, mics, etc. I've become fascinated by M/S
> recording, and I'm currently experimenting with OMFI mic
> placement, and have done many years of binaural recording with
> various mics and techniques, but it would be especially fun to
> pick the brain of someone like yourself.
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> You wouldn't happen to be in Iowa by any chance...? (Yeah,
> right.)
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> Allen Cobb
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> http://timbreproductions.com
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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