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