no more drum micing! (perhaps)

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nano technology built in drum micing... might be of interest!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4637203.stm

cheers

LuKe

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In article <1120821002.829192.131150@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> lukenukum@gmail.com writes:

> nano technology built in drum micing... might be of interest!

Nano technology, harrumph! While I don't know that anyone ever
actually did it, one of the suggested applications for the C-Ducer of
the '80's was to attach it to a drum shell in lieu of a microphone.

Doesn't B-Band make acoustic guitar pickups using the same technology?


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it's kind of like plugging in an acoustic guitar that has a contact
pickup on the body versus micing it.

remember, microphones (every one of them) is like a camera lens. they
each have a viewpoint and capture perspective.

what that mic will do is capture a whole lot of the shell vibration,
and much less (none?) of the head. there are a zillion other factors
involved. but it's not going to be an "objective truth". no mic is
actually, and this one will be far from it.

but it could sound "cool" and "forceful". for live sound i could
totally see this in a workingman's kind of way. if i was in a wedding
band i'd go that route if it sounded good.

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LuKeNuKuM wrote:
> nano technology built in drum micing... might be of interest!
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4637203.stm
>

"The sound is more natural than that obtained using
microphones."

Bullshit. As if our ear is often placed inside on the rim.
How could anyone imagine that the timbre (spectral
content) there is anything like what is heard by a
microphone in the air external to the drum (which is _much_
closer to what propegates to our ears.)


Bob
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Odd that they give audio samples of the guitar micings, but none for
the drums. My guess is this stuff could be useful for live sound, but
mostly useless for recording applications.

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>it's kind of like plugging in an acoustic guitar that has a contact
pickup on the body versus micing it. <

Exactly. I've experimented with contact pickups
(www.pick-uptheworld.com)
on drums especially hand-drums. You get the best sound with BOTH a mic
and the pickup. In many ways the drums with a pickup are sort of like
the difference between an acoustic gutiar and an electric guitar. They
are different instruments and don't replace one another, but both are
useful musically for the right things.

Benj

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In article <42d19227$0$6317$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net> steve@sjNOSPAMTAVERYMUCHwhite.plus.com writes:

> If they're doing their job correctly they'll be recording, analysing and
> refining. The fact that they haven't posted any samples suggests, very
> strongly IMHO, that the sound they've achieved so far is not good enough to
> let punters hear it.

Or maybe they think it's so wonderful that everyone should buy it
without hearing what it sounds like. Isn't that the way most people
buy microphones these days (no matter what we tell them about
listening first)? Royer will send you a CD of some recordings made
with their mics, and AKG used to have a "sampler" CD, but can you
hear a Shure SM58 on the Shure web site?



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