On 29 Jun 2013, at 07:40, Dave Malham wrote: > On 28 June 2013 23:07, Goran Finnberg <master...@telia.com> wrote: >> It´s all a blob of washed out sound in the middle with very little >> directional effects at all. A very spacious effect that is totally missing >> when I hear the same forces recorded via coincident mic techniques >> > All I can say is you've been listening to some very poor acoustics, then.
I hear Goran's blob as well, even in great acoustics, although we might not agree about what's good acoustics :) It's very interesting that, as a classical recording engineer, I almost always end up with spaced mic setups. Perhaps it has to do with education, personal preference for certain aspects of sound quality (very multi-dimensional) or we might hear things differently. Some scientists are working on an article about this subject. It looks interesting: http://www.frontiersin.org/Auditory_Cognitive_Neuroscience/researchtopics/How_and_why_does_spatial-heari/1296 Here's a great comparison of different stereo mic setups. Around 03:40 the mics move from spaced to coincident. I personally can't imagine how anyone can find that an improvement but YMMV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fguw5I6MxEo > Still, this is all a continuation of a "discussion" I have been having with > the beard Scotsman, Mike Williams, at AES conventions, over emails and in > person for the last three decades without every coming to a real agreement > - and we are still mates, much to my wife's surprise. There are plenty of things my wife and I don't agree about and we're still happily together. I think the same holds for recording techniques, as long as the violins come from the left. Kees de Visser Galaxy Classics _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
