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parents are funny (dpa content)
i had easter dinner with my parents last night and commented to my
father on how I am experimenting with this new microphone to record my classical guitar in live performance. I'm trying out the dpa imk4061 with pretty good results. I'm trying to find a way to mount it now that I've found a good position for it, and I wanted Dad's advice to rig something up. So my last concert was local and my parents were there- i mentioned "did you see that little black dot attached to the top of the guitar?" which Dad replied no. so i explained that it was this little lavalier mic etc.... When I showed him how small it is his first comment, and he was serious, was "it must not be very good- i hope it wasn't too expensive." Then later when I was describing where i want to mount the microphone he said to drill another hole in the body (there's an endpin for the passive undersaddle transducer) for the xlr and just mount the mic inside. he would argue with every excuse I came up with as to why that ain't happening so finally I said simply "it's not an option, next suggestion..." Then when he asked if the mic needed to be oriented a certain direction i told him no- this is an omni directional mic and this one in particular is omni at all frequencies. he says "that doesn't make sense- i know what omnidirectional means but the sound would have to change depending on where the sound hits it" to which point i said "let's have dessert". Of course this is the same guy who thinks i'm ridiculous for having spent as many thousands of dollars on my classical guitar as i did because sam ash has perfectly fine guitars for $400. Parents are funny. Nate |
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I had a somewhat simular experience some years ago We had just gotten some b&k 4006s which until then the usual was to start with with a AKG 422 for the main stereo pick up . the concert was a chamber orchestra in a fairly live large church with vocal pieces [ a stereo typical middle aged heavy set male tenor ] when setting up the 4006 s , he remarked on how small they were making modern microphones these days , well the omni's were too ambient for where they needed to be for a good balence , so upon pulling out the larger 422 , the Singer remarked " Now that's a microphone ! " Sometimes bigger is better ? or don't always get what you paid for ? regards "Nate Najar" wrote in message ... i had easter dinner with my parents last night and commented to my father on how I am experimenting with this new microphone to record my classical guitar in live performance. I'm trying out the dpa imk4061 with pretty good results. I'm trying to find a way to mount it now that I've found a good position for it, and I wanted Dad's advice to rig something up. So my last concert was local and my parents were there- i mentioned "did you see that little black dot attached to the top of the guitar?" which Dad replied no. so i explained that it was this little lavalier mic etc.... When I showed him how small it is his first comment, and he was serious, was "it must not be very good- i hope it wasn't too expensive." Then later when I was describing where i want to mount the microphone he said to drill another hole in the body (there's an endpin for the passive undersaddle transducer) for the xlr and just mount the mic inside. he would argue with every excuse I came up with as to why that ain't happening so finally I said simply "it's not an option, next suggestion..." Then when he asked if the mic needed to be oriented a certain direction i told him no- this is an omni directional mic and this one in particular is omni at all frequencies. he says "that doesn't make sense- i know what omnidirectional means but the sound would have to change depending on where the sound hits it" to which point i said "let's have dessert". Of course this is the same guy who thinks i'm ridiculous for having spent as many thousands of dollars on my classical guitar as i did because sam ash has perfectly fine guitars for $400. Parents are funny. Nate |
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On Mar 24, 5:24*am, Nate Najar wrote:
Then when he asked if the mic needed to be oriented a certain direction i told him no- this is an omni directional mic and this one in particular is omni at all frequencies. *he says "that doesn't make sense- i know what omnidirectional means but the sound would have to change depending on where the sound hits it" to which point i said "let's have dessert". Well, Dad is partially correct. All mics beam at high frequencies. Every last one. Omnis too. The better omnis hold a better polar pattern over the entire frequency range. Even measurement mics have two different standards depending on whether the the sounds to be measured are random or free field. See IEC 61672 (from 60651), IEC 61094 and ANSI S1.4 and S1.12. bobs BS Studios / SoundSmith Labs we organize chaos |
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