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Re: recording rig advice

Subject: Re: recording rig advice
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_rob
Date: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:17 am (PDT)
At 9:46 PM -0400 8/23/06, Walter Knapp wrote:
>Posted by: "Tim Nielsen"
>
>>  Rob, am curious what software you're using to look at the=A0
>>  frequencies, are you using a sonogram or a RTA plugin of some kind?
>
>I rarely listen to a recording without having a real time sonogram
>display running. This is particularly true if I'm filtering or otherwise
>processing the sound. One should, of course, realize that all the
>various displays have their own anomalies often created by the
>limitations of the math involved.
>
>If you are trying to do it just by ear you need to realize just how much
>your personal sound processing is colored and use some care in trusting
>it. And of course take into account not only the sound reproduction gear
>but the environment it's in. I use the running sonogram as a check on
>what I think I hear.
>
>Walt
>

I can't see the resonance associated with better
mics on any of the real time sonogram plugs I
use. Wish I could!  Rob D.


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