Vicky, Greg,
Sorry for late answer, Greg!
I got the SASS in 2010 because I wanted a reference when working with
the different "Murie" mike's I had. When I got it, brand new, there
were already two holes in the foam for the microphone capsules. That
is where the 172's are located on the picture.
But quite soon I got more into:
http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/docs/mod_sass.html
approved on and used by a lot. The diaphragms are facing out.
I have also used the SASS with AT3032.
But my intention was not to evaluate "SASS" vs. "SSM", they are
actually far too different for that. Only hear the difference.
The most obvious difference is that the SASS is looking forward more
than the SSM, which was not a problem for Crown, as it was meant to
hang on a wall, anyway.
A muffled sound is not wrong, it's a matter of taste. Also,
headphones make more difference in that aspect than a reasonable
microphone, not to speak about how hard the headphones are pressing
against your ears. "Muffled" is a in my mind a word describing
"characteristics", not "quality".
Klas.
At 22:30 2012-08-13, you wrote:
>Well-spotted Greg. Looking closely, I certainly agree that Klas's
>SASS rig has the mics positioned wrongly, they need to be further out
>by half to one inch. And ideally they should have the diaphragms
>flush with the boundary. I had not been able to grasp why Klas
>thought of the SASS sound as muffled, I have never found that to be
>the case with SASS, except occasionally for a sound directly front on
>with a SASS that has a 'square' nose rather than a tapered one.
>
>Vicki
>
>On 13/08/2012, at 4:21 PM, Gregory O'Drobinak wrote:
>
> > Klas, The first thing I noticed is that your modified SASS array
> > has the EM172s
> > [correct me if I'm wrong; that's what they look like] mounted much
> > too close to
> > the 'nose' of the SASS, probably at least one half inch too far in.
> > That very
> > well could explain some of the "muffled" quality that you describe
> > on that web
> > page. They are inside the foam of the nose piece, thus any direct
> > sound on axis
> > has to travel through foam, not through free air. This is not good;
> > such
> > deviations can have a negative effect on the array performance.
> >
> >
>Klas had written:
>
> > 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.
>
>
>
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