"Mike Turk" wrote in message ble.rogers.com...
Hi Paul,

each musical instrument and voice needs a special built
microphone - you think.
As you use your especial built pea soup spoon, when
you want to eat that soup. Right?

Cheers

ebs


Ha Ha! I like this answer!
Although the spoon manufacturers and spoon salesmen
want you to believe that you *need* that special pea soup spoon.

-mike

i don't. i really don't think the analogy holds up.

the spoon doesn't need to, and furthermore is incapable of, flattering
or altering the taste of the soup. if it is altering the taste of the
soup, something is seriously wrong.

the spoon, unlike the mic, delivers the actual source material,
unaltered (aside from, perhaps, some cooling), to the mouth of the
eater. it is not capturing some vital element (the taste?) of the soup
and changing it from one form of existence to another.

not to mention the subjective and artistic nature of the craft of
capturing a sound vs. the non-subjective utilitarian task of shoveling
food into one's mouth.

i can see the artistic elements of preparing food and even in
appreciating fine cooking...but choice of spoon certainly allows for
far less variation, experimentation or consequence to the results of
it's intended purpose than microphone selection or placement does to
it's respective purpose.

but hey, one mic's as good as another right? they all sound the
same...all those specs are marketing hype...the differences in sound
you hear when you use different models? ...placebo!

soup's on!

Yeah I hate it when I hear a concertina recording that wasn't recorded
with a Binson C36ai; which everyone knows is the optimum mic for this
instrument.

-mike

so the people in this thread who've helpfully voiced opinions on
flattering/appropriate mic choices/placement are full of ****?

the guy posted an honest question asking for some guidance toward a
flattering mic to use on a particular instrument and this jackass
posts an analogy that basically said the question was as ridiculous as
asking what kind of spoon someone should use to eat a particular kind
of soup.

i looked in on the thread because i was interested to see the
responses, not to see someone being ridiculed for asking the question.
that's why i responded.

the only way that bull**** analogy would be valid is if the original
poster asked:
"what mic stand would make my concertina recording sound better?"

to quote Ronny (or was it Donny?) from the motion picture Rushmo
"...Get your head out of your ass!"