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Hi,
On Thursday 24 June 2010 00:55:29 Jonathan Gazeley wrote:

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> On 06/23/2010 11:26 PM, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:

> > I don't fully agree on the benefits of using omnis.

> > A *good* cardioid will reproduce the bass as well,

> > even if maybe you need to EQ a few dB. And spaced omnis

> > on organs or anything that produces long sustained notes

> > can be a disaster for mono compatibility, unless they are

> > spaced much more than a meter. And in that case you risk

> > the 'hole in the middle' or you need at least three mics.

> Thanks too for your advice. How important is mono compatibility, given

> that these recordings are burnt to CD as stereo, and handed out to

> people who listen to them on their stereos at home?

Many people today have a "stereo" where the two speakers are about 20cm awa=

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from each other. Which makes it mono for any practical listening.

Other people listen to it in their car. Either they have a Maibach with a B=

ose=20

sound-system, or each passenger will sit in front of one speaker and only h=

ear=20

the other channel very thin =3D> Mono for all practical efforts.

And if they really like your music, they will listen to it from their mobil=

e=20

phone. Again in mono.
Even if we are living in the age of 5.1 and 7.1 and ambisonics, it is still=

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important to have your music mono-compatible because we also live in the ag=

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of really crappy sound systems (which incidentally intel named "high defini=

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audio" aka hda, go figure)...
Arnold
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