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Ever had someone sing into your ear from an inch away??

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Robert Hamel

In Reply to: RE: Do Microphones "Hear" Like The Human Ear/Brain Does? posted by thetubeguy1954 on March 25, 2011 at 13:08:42

Different points in space will sound different especially with distance. Anything recorded up close will sound quite different than from across the room. Just because you didn't hear it from 20ft away doesn't mean it wasn't there.

Edits: 03/29/11

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RE: Ever had someone sing into your ear from an inch away?? - thetubeguy1954 13:40:30 04/01/11 (2)
Robert,

You asked if ever had someone sing into your ear from an inch away?? While I cannot say it was precisely an inch, but having played guitar and sung in an all acoustic/semi-electric band similar to America or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, there were times when 2 or 3 of us sang into one mic while the lead singer sang into another mic.

So yes I've had people sing darn close to my ears and the truth is I've NEVER heard the simbilance I'd sometimes later hear in the recordings we've made of those gigs. I fully realize anything recorded up close will sound quite different than if it was recorded from across the room. I also fully realize because you didn't hear it from 20ft away also doesn't mean it was there either!

Now I'd like to know how much singing, playing and recordings of your own band(s) music have you done, in which you'd have some practical experience in talking about your hearing or not hearing simbilance while playing/recording you'd sometimes later hear in the recordings you've made of your gigs?

Tom Scata (thetubeguy1954)
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- Stick your fingers in your ears it probably ends up being masked - Robert Hamel 09:37:27 04/04/11 (0)
  Stick your fingers in your ears and taik. It's amazing how much of our own voices are heard from transmission through our flesh and bones.
- RE: Ever had someone sing into your ear from an inch away?? - ahendler 20:16:22 04/01/11 (0)
  I've recorded in the studio for twenty years and sibilance 9not simbilance) is a common thing
  Alan
Excellent point - mls-stl 19:36:46 03/31/11 (0)
> > Ever had someone sing into your ear from an inch away??

There are very few recordings made with microphones placed at the position a typical listener would be at a live performance.

Almost all modern pop & rock recordings are heavily multi-miked at close range. Even the majority of classical recordings place the main stereo mikes widely apart and elevated above the orchestra and immediately in front. That is much brighter than what the audience hears. There are no seats at that position. Not even the conductor is there. And that still doesn't account for the fact that many modern classical recordings still use highlight mikes. This is especially true if there is a solo artist playing.

Sure, there are plenty of other factors involved, but the basic question is why would you expect a recording to sound the same as live when the mikes are never located where you ears would be?

There are a few binaural recordings out there, but their total count is some miniscule sub-fraction of a percent, all from obscure labels.

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