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In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: Simpson Microphones thread.
Post Subject: Suggested topics of investigationPosted by Andy Simpson on: 7/10/2008
 Romy the Cat wrote:

 Andy Simpson wrote:

Romy - as it turned out, the 'crapped off bass' that you refered to was in part due to the consumer pre-amp I was using.

I attach an mp3 from a recent session where I recorded using a DAV BG1 into Mytek stereo96 converters. In making the recording with the upgraded mic-amp & converter I noticed immediately that the bass went much lower.

The mic-amp/converter upgrade was a direct result of my customers telling me that their own recordings made with my microphones were far better than my samples (they had similar complaints to yours).

This recording was monitored live in the hall with the orchestra at performance SPL via a pair of Mackie SRM450 speakers and was quite close to the actual sound.

Andy, come on,

was it a joke or you are serious? Are you trying to present this Sound as something that has any more or less proper bass? I do not know at witch level of your recording/mastering chain it came to you but this Sound has absolutely revolting bass – juts a pieces of syntactic rubber garbage, sorry to say it. Also, it was incredibly boring play of Tchaikovsky IV. You shell not record music like this.

Rgs, Romy the Cat


Romy, I would suggest the following topics of investigation:

1. Psychoacoustics
2. Auditory masking
3. Equal loudness contours of human hearing
4. Recording, mixing & mastering procedure & signal chain of your reference recordings
5. The interaction of all of the above

Best regards,

Andy

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