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Re: Miniature Pseudo-SASS Array

Subject: Re: Miniature Pseudo-SASS Array
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:01 pm ((PDT))
Not everything that works, or transmits beauty, is practical, Klas.  
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On Aug 11, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Klas Strandberg wrote:

> Hi everyone, I can't stay out of this, even if I perhaps should.
>
> At http://klas.telinga.com/SSM-SASS/ there is a comparison between
> the Telinga SSM and the SASS. I put up this site only to ask a few
> people that I trust, to say their opinions.
>
> The site is messy and you have to read the track descriptions
> carefully. But it does give an impression on how different, or alike,
> two systems can be. The microphone capsules are the same.
>
> Bernie, about Curts rig and the "Murie" mike,
> It seems to me as if our brain (hearing) mostly is quite pleased with
> getting some "clues" about what is happening and that unconscious
> processes, based on experience, add what is lacking. In this issue
> about mini-mic's, it means that the brain only needs a stereo "reach
> out" at some higher frequencies and adds the rest by experience.
> This is supported by recent psychological experiment on seeing. There
> are evidence that the brain can take decisions much faster than what
> ever reaches our conscious part of the brain, simply by getting some
> "clues" and then adding, based on experience and probability. It's
> really a revival of Freud, actually, but in other words and focusing
> on perception.
> If so, it might explain why I "feel" the difference between different
> mic systems and also between different loudspeaker systems. Some
> systems seem to make "emotional sense", while others do not. It could
> be that some systems make my brain work hard to fill the gaps,
> (stress) while other systems already contains most of what my brain
> needs, (tranquility).
>
> It's a speculation, but it would partly explain "why it works" when
> it "shouldn't". The Murie mike "worked" but I never "felt"
> comfortable with it, even though I tried and tried. Instead of
> enjoying what I heard, I was all the time busy thinking about what
> would happen if the capsules were more apart, or more angled out, or
> closer, or.... what? I could never relax to what I heard.
>
> Klas.
>
>
>
>
>
> At 17:39 2012-08-11, you wrote:
>> <<The SASS-type rigs deliver a super clean image without any of the
>> "wavy" microphone interactions that are common to ORTF, M-S and
>> Spaced-Omni arrays. >>
>>
>> Could you describe what you mean by "wavy"? Given how vastly
>> different ORTF, MS & Spaced Omni are from each I can't imagine what
>> characteristic they would all have in common. Are you referring to
>> the partial blending toward mono of any non-baffled array?
>>
>> Scott Fraser
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie  
>> Krause.
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> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie  
> Krause.
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