On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:08:39PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 00:55:29 Jonathan Gazeley wrote: > > On 06/23/2010 11:26 PM, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I don't fully agree on the benefits of using omnis. > > > A *good* cardioid will reproduce the bass as well, > > > even if maybe you need to EQ a few dB. And spaced omnis > > > on organs or anything that produces long sustained notes > > > can be a disaster for mono compatibility, unless they are > > > spaced much more than a meter. And in that case you risk > > > the 'hole in the middle' or you need at least three mics. > > Thanks too for your advice. How important is mono compatibility, given > > that these recordings are burnt to CD as stereo, and handed out to > > people who listen to them on their stereos at home? > > Many people today have a "stereo" where the two speakers are about 20cm away > from each other. Which makes it mono for any practical listening. > Other people listen to it in their car. Either they have a Maibach with a Bose > sound-system, or each passenger will sit in front of one speaker and only hear > the other channel very thin => Mono for all practical efforts. Given my background [*] maybe I could be too sensitive to mono compatibility. But a stereo signal that has bad mono compatibility doesn't have much chance to work well in stereo either. [*] Broadcasting. When I was working for BRTN, the situation was quite simple. If you made a recording that would not work well in mono, and the 'supervisor of transmissions' would notice - either instantly for a live transmission, or some months later in the other case, then you'd be invited to report to the director of engineering some days later to explain and/or justify what you had done. If the director did not like whatever you had to say, the result would be an 'official reprimand' :-) Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
