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Hi
I have some recordings that might be fun.
I am working an a different way to capture a hemisphere of sound and while that takes 8 channels the front two can be played through normal headphones loudspeakers as the acoustic field of view is similar to ones vision.
I keep telling people to use headphones before playing through their loudspeakers and it never occurred to me to post them here for folks who listen through headphones to start with (me about 50/50).
Anyway, these are not compressed, large dynamic range, low average level recordings made at several stages of development. As this was ugly and cobbled together for most of it's life, it took it to "only the best places" to play with it.
Places like my backyard for the train and fireworks, where megabytes isn't about memory it's about mosquitoes.
Best
Tom Danley
Danley Sound Labs
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Tom, I burned some of your earlier recordings onto a CD-R (fireworks, trains, the Harley!) and played them back on one setup of our studio monitors (JBL 4311, powered by a Bryston 4B NRB- we usually use Focal self-powered monitors, but wanted to see what the "old combo" could do).
While the Harley and the trains were well served by this combo, the fireworks (when played back at REALISTIC levels) actually clipped the Bryston at times (thankfully, the JBLs survived to play another day)!
Talk about Dynamics (with a capitol "D")!!!
You really need to try your set up with some live "in the room" musicians (maybe a rock band rehearsing?).
Just my thoughts...
PS- from a techno-geeks POV, it was fun watching the woofers move on the JBLs! You've certainly captured the bottom end!
Dman
"If the audio industry built gear that sounded as good as it did 50 years ago, there would NEVER be a need to re-issued anything!"
Hi
Yeah there is no compression and no “high pass” on the low end so the “Fireworks” are very taxing and is a great test (especially with an oscilloscope to look at the signal) to find clipping in the signal chain.
At one point i played it loud enough a few times that my kids said "DAAAAD really?".
It is very difficult to re-create the stereo image with loudspeaker though. It can be done but DO try these with headphones,
I think you will find they sound more like an open window than most and no trickery.
One problem was that for most of it's life this system was very clumsy and klugy looking. I agree what's next is to recording something like a band or other live event. The bbq was cool as a test source but it was a bunch of kids that were playing.
Best,
Tom
Interesting. Thanks.
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