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3. Re: The insult??

Subject: 3. Re: The insult??
From: "Rich Peet" richpeet
Date: Mon May 7, 2007 4:16 pm ((PDT))
Great day recording. Secured 3 missing species.
Rich Peet

It is not important what you feel when you call someone a niger. But
that does not mean it is not important to the niger.
--- In  Klas Strandberg <>
wrote:
>
> So this is the insult!??
>
>
> >"Microphones are not ears,
> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
> >A listening room is not nature."
>
>
> The story
> Seven recordists here had a long nights discussion on sound
> "quality".  All people displayed their individual problems, aims and
> opinions. As the discussion went on, it became more and more obvious
> to everyone that we would never come to some kind of "conclusion".
> Then someone said that "microphones are not ears." Another one smiled
> and said that "loudspeakers are not a string quartet" and another one
> filled in with "and my studio is not Metropolitan".
> We all laughed and that was the end of a, anyway, impossible discussion.
>
> I wrote it down at a posting at this list, only a bit modified. I
> don't remember why. It connected to something else, I
> guess....explaining something which is difficult to pinpoint.
>
> As I recall it, Doug was contacted by someone who thought that my
> lines were somewhat "poetic" or something. Doug asked me if I allowed
> it to end all postings.
> I said okay, why not.
>
> On Sun May 6, 2007 8:51 pm ((PDT)) Umashankar wrote:
>
>  > as a professional sound recordist, i do not think it is an
>  > insult. just a reminder that what we indulge in is, at best,
>  > an imperfect art.
>
> Well, that's it, I guess.
>
> Klas.
>
>
>
>
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> S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
> Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
> email: 
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>
>
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