> My understanding of David's definition of the terms fetch and reach
> was that fetch means the furthest distance at which the system can
> record sounds and make them sound like they're close, while reach is
> just the furthest distant at which the systme can record sounds and
> make them sound audible, but not necessarily close.
Peter,
I use "fetch" because I can define it. I'm not sure how to define
"reach". "Fetch" is a comparison between mic rigs (essentially in
stereo) and concentrates on the perspective you hear, just as photos
have different perspectives with different lenses.
You want to set your target animal or bird or whatever in a soundscape
or it becomes too dry. On the other hand, a thrush or woodpecker
drowned out by other birds or by natural reverberation gets lost.
Now ask me to define "sound perspective". :-( It is the image conjured
up in your head by the recording. Stereo, and in fact all recording,
is a conjuring trick, and we are the conjurers. It is not real. We are
looking at a bit of wall between two speakers and hearing a woodland
full of birds. We are listening to flapping plastic. Our imagination
undoes the trick. I've tried it on my cats and it doesn't work. They
can see there is nothing there to chase. :-)
David
David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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