Recording with Measurement Mics
On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 7:51:02 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
James Price wrote:
Just out of curiosity, if you were listening to a close mic'd recording of =
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cab in the same room that the cab was recorded in with said measurement mic=
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would the distance from the listener to the monitors naturally reproduce th=
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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?
No, because the ear hears very differently than the microphone, and when you
play back you're hearing both the playback room sound combined with the
room sound on the recording. So most of the time the microphone needs to
be closer than where a listener would be for the same sound.
Right, and that's basically what I was asking. The idea was to eliminate the
room sound in the recording via close mic'ing so that it doesn't mingle with
the sound of the listener's room.
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