Zoom H6
Ron C wrote:
I totally agree that one should learn to walk first. However, keep in
mind that
Mr. Eickmeier is totally enamored, infatuated, captivated, enchanted,
fascinated,
and beguiled
I don't want to comment so that it can be read as commenting on Mr.
Eckmeier. However I check imaging on a very different stereo setups, one
needs at least three in at least two rooms or to bother friends and family
with "can we hear this on your fine system, please".
by the spatial aspect of sound, perhaps to the exclusion
of many other aspects. When you're that deeply in love it's
hard to step back and see the full picture.
At a surround sound event of some kind in the Danish AES chapter two
interesting things happened, one was that it dawned on me that the term
correlation/decorrelation not only applies to a 5.1 mic rig, but that it is
the only relevant distinction also between stereo setups.
That was the positive outcome, the negative outcome was that a lecturer said
that with 5.1 it is so much easier to hear everything that the mix matters a
lot less. It is a longhanded way of actually saying that "ya can't record if
ya can't record mono", the gruesome part being that he didn't realized it
and thought that he was better at recording and mixing now that he worked in
5.1.
Well recorded mono has perspective and layering and working in mono shows
how critical other parameters, like level and tonality/eq are as tools to
control it. What the good rock mixers I have met have taught me, especially
Henrik Steen Nielsen of Alrune Rod, is that "it is all about center image",
it is the cake, left and right are just the icing.
Oh, the R44 offers mono monitoring as well as pairing of two machines btw.
Kind regards
Peter Larsen
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