[geoff]

On 27/07/2018 4:13 PM, James Price wrote:
On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 10:07:35 PM UTC-5, Phil Allison wrote:
** For "accurately as possible" the result needs to sound like people in the room hear it. Human ears are not "flat" and omnidirectional only at low frequencies.

Recording mics need to be placed at the correct distance to blend direct and reflected sounds in the right ratio for playback in another room which also has reflected sound. Solving this problem is generally done with a cardioid mic or mics, despite the fact they are neither flat nor omnidirectional.

Just out of curiosity, if you were listening to a close mic'd recording of a
cab in the same room that the cab was recorded in with said measurement mic,
would the distance from the listener to the monitors naturally reproduce the
appropriate room reflections / resonances necessary for the recording to
sound like the source to people in the room who heard it, thus eliminating
the need to bake said distance into the recording?



To a degree yes. But everyone in the audience will hear something
slightly different in some rooms, and very different in other rooms
rooms. Especially it there are strongly reflective surfaces.

geoff