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"Never is a long time"

Ha! That's good! :)

Yeah, as I've said before, I'm a big fan of Richard Heyser. He quantified and explained things in such a way as to make it obvious and understandable. I'm also a big fan of Michael Gerzon. He really "got" the whole 3D recording thingy, and knew what the limitations of recording are. I'm sad that he passed away so young, and didn't get to achieve his full potential and vision.

With regard to recording, using a measurement mic and going to a mono track, etc., yup, been there, done that. 1974 was my first time. B&K 4133 or 4135 or such, going into a modified Studer A80 at 30 ips. Those were the days - experiment 'til the cows come home! :)

And certainly, we can be fooled into believing a recording is "just like" the real thing, right up until we hear the real thing. Remember the old AR drumset demo back in the 70s, where they had a drummer ostensibly playing, but what we were hearing was actually a recording? That was cool, and it played with our hearing and sight senses! As a specially produced sound track, it was very convincing, especially with the visual aspect. I've always wondered if we'd have been as convinced if they didn't have the drummer. (And, yes, I've seen the videos which you often link to.)

Nevertheless, given that a microphone picks up an instrument's sound at only one point, and the loudspeaker reproduces only the sound from that point, we don't get a true reproduction of the instrument in a room, even if great efforts were made to make it sound real. The illusion is shattered as soon as the real instrument is played live in the room.

:)

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