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However, only the opposite note, some people have said that your mics seems
to unnaturally boost the high frequencies which makes recordings sound
harsh and brittle!!!
You see my problem. If the last comment is true, it probably isn't what I
want.
REPLY: I have never heard that kind of remark and would not have a clue about the source if I had not received last year two
recordings (one a DAT and the other a 'bootleg packaged' CD supposedly both DSM recordings). Both these recordings could easily
be described as the above! In addition, all the dimensional aspects of these recordings has vanished if they were there at
all!!!.........How could this be??
After recovering from the shock, I thought about how could such a fine microphone produce (under any circumstance) such garbage.
There ARE things that can happen to a DSM microphone .... during the recording .... and/or in............... 'post production'.....!!!
1) The user can position the mic or use them in a way that eliminates the dimensional sound cues with mounting in other ways than
recommended. This may explain some of the loss of spatial sound, but not the loss of tone.
2) With the advent of CD-R and computor software to manipulate the sound, many with no taste or ears use these tools to mangle the
sound to their 'taste' by eliminating the bass completely and boosting the high frequencies in multiple bands of a graphic type of
equalization.
This would also eliminate or greatly reduce coherent phase information resulting a recording with no dimensional sound and produce
a recording with no natural tones.
This is what has got to have happened to these recordings. I know better after having used these mics for thousands of recordings
under all circumstances.
BOTTOM LINE: A recording may not tell the truth about the microphone used, ONLY the overall taste of the recordist who passes
such to others. A special circumstance recording can make a microphone sound exceptional or awful. Post Manipulation of the
recording can entirely change the tone character and spatial qualities (usually for the worse, especially when overdone).
>There are now enough tape traders using DSM microphones that private type
user
>comments are now far less valuable to the researcher than the experience
of an actual traded series of consistantly good sounding tapes from honest unbiased
>sources. For you and those just getting into the hobby, finding truthful
>information is more challenging and in this case, bound to be confusing.
>
Yes. A number of people admit that the Cores do produce good recordings,
just not as good i.e. they don't have the depth and presence that your mics
can produce. Though whether that difference is worth the extra $300 or so
is what I'm trying to find out.
REPLY: A sense of Quality seems mostly acquired with experience ................ "Life is too short not to purchase the best quality you can