[LAU] digital voodoo: master fader should be set at 0db

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Tue Apr 13 02:58:55 EDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:50:56AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Monday 12 April 2010 23:41:10 micromoog wrote:
> > 2010/4/12 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de>
> > > if all those cable and bit transparency fetishists knew how reference
> > > classical recordings are produced, the whole discussion (and large parts
> > > of the high-end market) would go down in flames.
> > 
> > I for one am interested in this . . . how *are* those top-end reference
> > recordings produced? Using an old pair of headphones as mics, with long
> > coils of electrical extension cord for cabling?  :P
> 
> A pair of coal-mics and a strip of field telephone cable from the army supply 
> will suffice :-P
> 

Who needs a mic? If you just yell into a cheap guitar cable really loud, it works just fine.

-ken


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