Thank you all!
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
The Cinderella Microphone
The last foot your try is the best one.
After spending countless hours on eBay microphone hunting...
Well it is not always hunting, usually the best ones are the ones that nobody wants...
After a few years on eBay searching and listening to perhaps the best moving coil microphones on the planet...
And now that the Pleiades V6 front end amp is up and running so that any mic is like being connected to an electron microscope...
The best omni so far is the Grampian DP4/L.
In fact the best mic so far. So big, clear, punchy, natural, HF detailed, big bass but no bass heaviness, smooth but live midrange, low noise...
And so far from the constant D directionals is believe it or not the Schaub Lorenz SM200 with squarish cross section, made by Beyer?. Natural, nothing disturbing. excellent HF detail, smooth and live midrange, nice bass, not bass heavy, you can sing close to it, there is a bit of hiss.
From directionals so far the miraculous RE-15 should be top. A direct comparison between the 2 has not been made yet.
Special thanks to:
Martin Mitchel
For his rediscovery of the Grampian DP4/L
Trashblitz
For his mentioning of the name Schaub Lorentz on the M55? post.
Of course pay attention to the setup. For example the mics are terminated by 140mH input transformer primary inductance. And a world class BA-2C or Neumann U47 based booster amp is used, electron vacuum tube, 4V battery powered, the Pleiades V6. The schematic as everything Pleiades is open source.
140mH is low for some 200Ω omni mics (due to bass cut) but most of the top class mics had been connected to a higher primary inductance transformers, eg. 200mH, 300mH, 400mH. See other euroelectron posts.
Signal path, setup:
Male voice singing A Taste of Honey (in C minor) at 2in to 6in - microphone - Pleiades V6 head amplifier with (1:10, 140mH input transformer primary) - Sony TC-D5 Pro at balanced mic in, in mono mode - Sennheiser HD580 precision
It will not be mentioned to which mics they were today compared to. Let's not give them any more hard time.
References:
Pleiades V6 schematic - euroelectron
Neumann U47 schematic
RCA BA-2C schematic
http://www.coutant.org/ba2c/index.html
Monday, March 19, 2018
This first upload of example of Bach Bass Rules on YouTube
Piano playing by ear brain.
On renewablemusic YouTube channel.
The song used: A Taste of Honey
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0tEx-_akNWk
Reference:
Bach Bass Rules PDF
http://normanschmidt.net/scores/bachjs-general_bass_rules.pdf
Interesting information on legend producer Joe Meek
By searching:
Recodding Iconoclast Joe Meek Heard a New World - Electroninc Musician
And the books:
The great British recording studios.
Joe Meek's Bold Techniques.
Why do the Joe Meeks, Phil Spectors, Edwin Armstrongs of this world get into trouble?
Michael Jackson in the list too and so many others.
By reading the wikipedia article on Joe Meek it can be seen that there was fear in his heart.
But fear does not exist.
He won the case on royalties 3 weeks after his death.
Armostrong won his patents after his death too.
Only if they could wait for a while.
Why do these things happen.
An interesting explanation can be found on Fringe Knowledge for Beginners - Montalk.
Un-Phobia is perhaps the most important of all. Fear does not even exist.
And it is also how one can handle money and success.
Vangelis said in his Quatar interview (YouTube) that success... "Why should one be successful?"
Joe Meek's place was found full of un released material.
Of course they must have been released after his death.
How difficult must it be someone giving all his energy, money, being successful and then become depressed when he, she is not.
When the key is in the Epictetous Enchiridion book.
"It has nothing got to do with you."
And in a Snoopy Cartoon on the book Musical Acoustics - Doland Hall, the girl asks the boy playing the piano.
"What if after all this practice you do not become rich and famous?"
And the boy replies while playing...
"The joy's in the playing"
Should then an inventor, producer etc give everything for free without ever signing anything?
For example a producer handing the master tapes or files to the artist without asking for anything back. Tax is out then too.
An inventor just publishing everything and not asking for a patents.
Οταν δεν οικειοποιούμαστε τίποτα, έχουμε πρόσβαση στα παντα.
The most important is to be free.
How about a list of mics a famous producer did not use
For example it should be found on google by searching Joe Meek and Grampian GR1 ribbon microphone etc that Joe Meek may had not used these fabulous mics although he had them.
But he may had used them, you never know.
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