Paul,
I finally was able to check out your article and audio clips.
Excellent work! It was nice to hear the two rigs side by side. Both
delivered clean, pleasant recordings. I pretty much agree with your
assessment of accuracy and tonal balance of the two rigs. We haven't
discussed this as far as I recall, but when processing my recordings
made with the 3032 parallel barrier rigs, I always pre-condition the
signal with a slight offset curve to correct for that midrange boost
you mentioned.
Your article, and especially the two audio clips, help us see the
important reality that any method we can come up with for deploying
microphones in the field will render recordings that have unique
characteristics all their own. There's no one right way. And our
individual choices will always be governed by a host of factors
including our varying purposes, our varying budgets, our varying
abilities or willingness to experiment and "diy," our varying
aesthetics, the size, weight and complexity of gear we're willing to
carry, etc.
Thank you for linking to the article,
Curt Olson
Paul Jacobson wrote:
> I wrote a short article on a side by side comparison recording of
> SASS and parallel boundary rigs which was published in the December
> 2008 issue of AudioWings (Vol 11, No. 2). The recordings were made
> by Andrew Skeoch and myself in late 2008. The comparison was done
> with our rigs set up side by side with around 2 metres spacing.
> There was minimal post processing done - gain was matched and it
> looks like a 50hz high pass filter was applied.
>
> Reading the article again and listening to the recordings I'm not
> sure I would have made the same comments. There are lots of
> variables at play in the comparison but it might give you an idea of
> some of the differences in presentation between SASS and headspaced
> parallel boundary array.
>
> I'm in the process of reworking the design of the AWSRG site at the
> moment and haven't finalised the format for online journal articles
> so you'll have to excuse the presentation and rough edges.
>
> http://www.awsrg.org.au/audiowings/vol11/no2/notes-two-stereo-rigs
>
> cheers
> Paul
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