"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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Nothing much doing so I've posted the quick microphone comparison I
mentioned recently.

These are are a simultaneous sax recording with two different mics, one
costing about 10X the price of the other:

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/MicA.wav

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/MicB.wav


Anybody pick a clear winner?


Morning Keith,


Evening Iain!



I am away at the moment, and so can only listen
in a rather rudimentary fashion. You have presented
two complete segments (instead of switching between them
say every four bars) which makes comparison more difficult.

I get the impression (on headphones) that Mic.A has less
high frequency content? Being able to switch an AB of the
two directly would confirm or disprove this.


Not easy to do. What I seek, if possible is someone to stab a finger and say
'that one'!! :-)



Have you compressed/peak limited the signal?


No - like I said, no editing other than volume adjustments.



I am wondering about, for example, the attack of the first
G (E natural on Eb alto saxophone) and hear the same effect
on both versions, so this is probably not a characterisic of
either microphone.

For any kind of comparison purposes of the solo mic,
the leakage of the backing track is somewhat distracting.


Sorry about that.



(Playing and/or recording quality here is nor the issue - both mics
suffered the same treatment and no editing has been done to the
recordings
other than an attempt to match the levels somewhat.)

Mic comparison is not, as I see it, about which sounds
"better" or "worse", "winners" or "losers" but which you
consider to be the more appropriate to capture the sound
which you, have in mind for that particular task.


Yep. IOW which one 'wins' in the contest for the job to hand!



Placement is almost as important as the choice of microphone.
The saxophone is quite a difficult instrument in that respect.


You know me....

;-)



One mic think, from watching TV, that clipping a
Sennheiser 608 on a gooseneck to look down into
bell is a good way to go about it Don'tchakidyerself!


No good to me: one thing I want my sax player to do soon is to start waving
the starts and ends of phrases away from the mic!




It's an interesting topic. Let's discuss it:-)

Hopefully this thread will take off. UKRA seems to
have been very quiet:-)



Yes, well aware that I start 90% of all the threads in here! ('Emptiest
vessels' and all that! ;-)



Breakfast is served.....


I hope it was a good one - I only had Quaker Oats So Simple!! :-)