David,
Instead of "fetch" why not use the common term, "acceptance angle." You cou=
ld still use it to compare mics and rank them in order of narrowness with t=
he narrowest being the highest if you want.
John Hartog
rockscallop.org
--- In "Avocet" <> wrote:
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> > 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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