Alan Blumlein on radio tonight

[Don Pearce]

BBC Radio4's Archive Hour tonight at 8pm (UK) is all about Alan
Blumlein, and apparently has a load of his original recordings. Here's a
sample of a stereo test he did in the 1930s - I just grabbed it off the
trailer. There would have been more but Audition is really slow to fire
up when you want it in a hurry.

http://81.174.169.10/odds/blumlein.mp3

d

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Don Pearce wrote:

> BBC Radio4's Archive Hour tonight at 8pm (UK) is all about Alan
> Blumlein, and apparently has a load of his original recordings.
> Here's a sample of a stereo test he did in the 1930s - I just grabbed
> it off the trailer. There would have been more but Audition is really
> slow to fire up when you want it in a hurry.

> http://81.174.169.10/odds/blumlein.mp3

Phase diagram is real funny to look at ...

> d

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Don Pearce]

Peter Larsen wrote:
> Don Pearce wrote:
>
>> BBC Radio4's Archive Hour tonight at 8pm (UK) is all about Alan
>> Blumlein, and apparently has a load of his original recordings.
>> Here's a sample of a stereo test he did in the 1930s - I just grabbed
>> it off the trailer. There would have been more but Audition is really
>> slow to fire up when you want it in a hurry.
>
>> http://81.174.169.10/odds/blumlein.mp3
>
> Phase diagram is real funny to look at ...
>
>> d
>
> Kind regards
>
> Peter Larsen
>
>
>

I suspect the mics' polar patterns weren't of the finest.

d

[William Sommerwerck]

> I suspect the mics' polar patterns weren't of the finest.

"Polar patterns"? They were probably omnis. (And, yes, I know that omnis
don't necessarily have the same on- and off-axis responses.)

[Don Pearce]

William Sommerwerck wrote:
>> I suspect the mics' polar patterns weren't of the finest.
>
> "Polar patterns"? They were probably omnis. (And, yes, I know that omnis
> don't necessarily have the same on- and off-axis responses.)
>
>

Omnis? This is THE Mr. Blumlein we are talking about here, you know.

d

[Paul Stamler]

"Don Pearce" > wrote in message
...
> William Sommerwerck wrote:
> >> I suspect the mics' polar patterns weren't of the finest.
> >
> > "Polar patterns"? They were probably omnis. (And, yes, I know that omnis
> > don't necessarily have the same on- and off-axis responses.)
> >
> >
>
> Omnis? This is THE Mr. Blumlein we are talking about here, you know.

Yes, but in addition to devising the Blumlein technique of stereo recording
(figure-8 mics, vertically coincident, angled at 90 degrees), he also
investigated recording with spaced omnis.

Peace,
Paul

[William Sommerwerck]

"Don Pearce" > wrote in message
...
> William Sommerwerck wrote:
> >> I suspect the mics' polar patterns weren't of the finest.
> >
> > "Polar patterns"? They were probably omnis. (And, yes, I know that omnis
> > don't necessarily have the same on- and off-axis responses.)

> Omnis? This is THE Mr. Blumlein we are talking about here, you know.

Forgive me. The brain must be in another country. As someone who made many,
many Blumlein recordings, I don't know how I could have made such a mistake.

I think what I was thinking of was the shuffler.

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

William Sommerwerck wrote:

> "Don Pearce" > wrote in message
> ...

>> William Sommerwerck wrote:
>>>> I suspect the mics' polar patterns weren't of the finest.

>>> "Polar patterns"? They were probably omnis. (And, yes, I know that
>>> omnis don't necessarily have the same on- and off-axis responses.)

>> Omnis? This is THE Mr. Blumlein we are talking about here, you know.

> Forgive me. The brain must be in another country. As someone who made
> many, many Blumlein recordings, I don't know how I could have made
> such a mistake.

> I think what I was thinking of was the shuffler.

My thought too OR a simple one channel polarity reversal, but I didn't
investigate and eventually I missed it online because of a my new, second
hand, surround receiver. I plain forgot about it. 6 hours vanished in
getting the thing set up just as stereo preamp, including enjoying that its
auto eq function got the loudspeaker bass and low midrange eq just right. I
wish they'd use better qualified staff to translate the manuals ...

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Eeyore]

Don Pearce wrote:

> BBC Radio4's Archive Hour tonight at 8pm (UK) is all about Alan
> Blumlein

And for a sec I thought he must have come back from the dead !

Bad luck with that H2S testing and low cloud for sure. You might have
thought they'd use the H2S to avoid the hills.

Graham