Re: Mic pres - what's the story?
- From: Chris Hornbeck <chrishornbeckremovethis@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:48:48 GMT
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:41:47 -0700, Scott Fraser
<Scott_Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Traditionally" some people have manipulated gear for effect, mic
preamps included.
There's a huge difference betwen manipulating something to sound a certain way
and getting one that's stuck with the effect at 100%.>>
An awful lot of people find 100% Neve to be a pretty desirable effect
to be stuck with.
Geez, good thing it wasn't you and Don tracking the Beatles.
They were using equipment that was about as transparent as it gets for its era..
Yes, & the fact that this equipment, which has been improved upon
enormously over the last 40 years, is still hugely desirable today
should tell you something. I.e. that transparency isn't the only, nor
necessarily best approach for a given recording.
Day.dot.come and me wanna go home. Or possibly everything
doesn't actually sound the same to everybody. Or not. Who
can say for sure?
Thanks, as always,
Chris Hornbeck
"I would much rather be able to say it sounds like such and such, but
when it's not obvious distortion and/or noise, when the specs are really
good for those factors and IM and slew rate and a host of other stuff I
probably can't bring to consciousness right now, yet one preamp lets me
hear as if the source is alive and right there, and the next one makes
me feel as if I'm listening to the equivalent of a very detailed
cardboard Elvis, I don't know what words to offer that might help. But
hell, I'm willing to try. Everything we might like to know isn't known
yet, and through history people have come up with ways to measure stuff
that previously went unmeasured." - Hank Alrich 07 May 2005
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